I have been looking for a pay MP3 website (beatport.com, edmdigital.com, etc) that has a catalog of White Label MP3's. Does anybody know of any or is there legal reasons for it (I wouldn't think there is any legal reasons since most records shops sell white label vinyl any ways)? I'm asking this because if I buy the vinyl, I don't really have a decent set up to record the vinyl to wav, mp3, etc. So I want to skip this process and just buy the acutally mp3. Thanks!

edit: I have been looking for The New Originals - 1799 for quite some time in a digital format...

they usually put songs on white labels becasue they cannot get the rights to a song or sample they used. SO I doubt it'd be legal to get a mp3 of em.



but I dunno, Im just guessing.

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Originally posted by Boomer187 they usually put songs on white labels becasue they cannot get the rights to a song or sample they used. SO I doubt it'd be legal to get a mp3 of em. but I dunno, Im just guessing.

I was thinking about that too, but I think there would be less of a paper trail if they just had a download instead of an actual physical copy (vinyl) of the product. So I think it would be safer for a download, but I guess I don't own my own shop so I'm not sure!

that or a test pressing. and since mp3's arent pressed... what you should be looking for is unreleased items on vinyl. If you actually are looking for those obscure remixes, you arent going to find them on beatport for the reasons listed above.

try release, they hvae a few white label mp3's on their site.

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Originally posted by wong I was thinking about that too, but I think there would be less of a paper trail if they just had a download instead of an actual physical copy (vinyl) of the product. So I think it would be safer for a download, but I guess I don't own my own shop so I'm not sure!

No actually the whole thing about a white label is just that - it's a white label. The only paper trail is the label, and it's white....it's blank...you have a paper trail that's blank.

For buying and downloading music off the net, typically the seller needs to have an agreement with the labels in question. In a traditional record shop, the owner buys directly from the distributor, and (as far as I know) does not have to pay any additional fees after the product has been bought by the shop owner. This is the key part, as it frees the record shop owner from legal liability, and only leaves the artist and original pressers at legal fault. However, since there is only a blank paper trail to follow, the original bootleggers will not be found.

Of course I may be wrong, as I know next to nothing about law, much less audio law, but this is the way I think about it.

So how about instead of downloads, could they have white label cd's? I think that would be the same as having white label vinyl.

but then your back to square 1... you would need to get it from a record store, and not an mp3 download. mp3 downloads are based on # of downloads, beatport or any other place isnt going to buy 100 cds up front or what not unless it is something that is proven to sell out no problem.

Well i distinctly remember on this board some people saying that they released Tiesto's white label Madonna/Radiohead remixes on the internet, before sending them to record stores (which i got...hehehe).So It seems to me that they do release white labels on the internet

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White Label MP3s. There is a site with hundreds of them! For Free!!!!

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I guess I have to go to my last resort, buy vinyl and create a decent recording set up (already have turntables, just need to buy a decent needle, been using crappy ones for years since I'm a poor college student)...oh well. I hope someday white labels will be available on cd or mp3.