It's a Record
When pre-recorded music mainly came in the form of vinyl discs I was the Quality Control Manager of a small record pressing plant in North London.

We had a series of orders from another pressing plant and worked flat out for several weeks to complete the orders. The time came for the bill to be paid and the news broke that the other plant was bankrupt! This had a rather serious impact on our own finances and we were days from closing.

But wait Salvation!! A bigwig bought the other pressing plant and then bought us too!

Great, but then we were made a subsidiary of the wankers who had bankrupted us in the first place!

We lasted barely three years under their "management" before we went to the wall.
( Vambo, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 12:39, Reply)