"Iain Churches" wrote

One sees that cheaper labels often have their own stand in the corner of
the shop, which they seem to service themselves.

"One" may see that, but I haven't seen it in decades.

Budget labels.
Pickwick/Hallmark/Allegro, and others were doing this with vinyl in
the1960s.


Indeed they were, but ISTM that the 1960s were their heyday. Who are the
"budget labels" today? What I *do* quite often see (and sometimes buy) are
"no label" CDs from independant producers. The producers may well be the
musicians themselves who write, perform, record and distribute their own
work. But no way are these "budget" CDs, they sell for the same sort of
prices as chart CDs do.

David.