DETROIT — Jack White is making a plea to the three major record labels to build their own vinyl pressing plants.
In a video released Monday, the Detroit rocker asks Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to help shoulder the burden on the vinyl industry. White opened his own vinyl pressing plant at the Cass Corridor site of his Third Man Records in 2017.
"Vinyl records have exploded in the last decade, and their demand is incredibly high," says White, sporting his current dyed-blue hair. Noting the strain on pressing plants, he says small punk bands face backups of eight to 10 months in order to get records pressed, and he asks the major labels to once again open their own pressing plants to help bring those turnaround times down to more manageable levels.
