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By: shelby collins

shelby collins — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:02:37 +0000

hello. some years back you had 2 very special cd’s for sale, im hoping you have some old stock and may have these, the cd’s were a tribute to merle haggard’s guitar player roy nichols who died in 2001, the first cd was called to roy nichols with love vol.1, 1997, the second cd was called to roy nichols with love vol.2 hillbilly down, 2001 the record label was cowgirl records, kathy robertson, I have had no luck in finding these cd’s, im hoping you can help, I have searched the net to hell and back with no luck, gemm, musicstack, eil.com, amazon, ebay, and about 30 others, please help! I live in bakersfield, ca, and no luck, thanks, shelby collins, email: j_d@pacbell.net
phone: 661-872-4966
p.s. in 2001 you did have these cd’s for sale at miles of music.

By: brent james

brent james — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:38:03 +0000

Miles of Music has owed my band The Stone City Stragglers money for at lease 4 years. I tried to contact them about it and they said the person that made my purchase order had left and that they would look into it. I never heard back and sent multiple e-mails with no response. All the banter on your site about them doesn’t surprise me at all, but I don’t believe for one minute that this is a result of the current economic status…like I said I had a 4 year old purchase order that I never got paid for.

Brent

By: DREW LANDRY

DREW LANDRY — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:45:47 +0000

Same story here (NOT MUCH HELP TO AN INDIE ARTIST)*

Because he never paid us for our first albums -I told him copies of our upcoming release would have to be paid for in advance. Never got the check he promised twice….Looks like he just ran out of free product.

God Bless Him (he’ll need it),

Drew

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Miles of Music: What went wrong? | Tampa Calling — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:28:15 +0000

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By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:55:54 +0000

jeff ripped me off too. not for as much as some of you but still pretty lame. karma is a bitch.

By: Autopsy IV

Autopsy IV — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:57:45 +0000

I am gonna write a follow up piece about the whole deal this weekend and hope to get it up next week.

By: Jason Kohl

Jason Kohl — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:46:47 +0000

Trevor, thanks for posting that blog post Weiss removed.

I’m surprised there is no mention of him screwing all these artists on No Depression/Americana sites yet.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:34:54 +0000

Since I’ve designed a small web app for reading blogs before, I figured Google Reader probably has a cached copy of the M.O.M. blog’s feed. I was right.

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A Note To Bands
from Miles of Music by Jeff Weiss
As you have figured out we abruptly closed a few weeks back. The current economic climate along with some older decisions that seemed right at the time all came to a head when the stock market tanked, credit tightened, and, customers stopped buying.

The company did not shut down with full coffers. No, it shut down completely broke.

There are loads of bands that are, unfortunately, going to come out on the short end. A business went bad, causing collateral damage.

Someone asked, “Well, why don’t you just send everything back?” If Miles of Music had the resources to send everything back, the company would also have the resources to continue doing business.

In 1995 the company set out to do things differently. We wanted to make sure everyone got paid. For a long while we succeeded. At the end, though, it isn’t to be.

An attorney has been retained to finalize the end of the company. Yes, the attorneys get paid. No, it isn’t coming out of company money. There is no company money. Over the next few months more details will emerge.

With apologies

Miles of Music

By: Jason Kohl

Jason Kohl — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:00:05 +0000

He very mush stated that he was not going to ship the artists product back (in a blog post) claiming that if he had money to do that, then he would have kept the business open. Uhhh, sorry Jeff, but you have 1000s of CDs that do not belong to you and 1000s of dollar worth of sold product you are not paying out to the arists.

Austopsy, this was stated on Weiss’s blog milesofmusic.blogspot.com last week, but he has since removed the (rather cavalier) post. Maybe the “wayback machine” could pull it up? Regardless, it is criminal what he is doing. What an asshole.

Anyone have a phone number for this guy, or a working email? He has since closed th sites domain, so the emails just bounce back.

By: (weewerk)

(weewerk) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:25:51 +0000

Funny Jeff asks us to “Please continue supporting independent artists” whereas he has seemingly ripped off more then a few indie artists and indie labels…even our little Canadian label (weewerk).

Aside from not paying us one red cent for 3 consignment orders – Jeff had the gall to ask me for a bunch of our new releases for consideration…why would someone do that if they were going out of business?

I’m really shocked by this behaviour and I will now go online to spout the truth on this slim ball.

What an asshole!
Phil Klygo http://www.weewerk.com