Chris Willman Music WriterTaylor Swift has pulled off another surprise drop — not quite as momentous a twist as releasing “Folklore” with less than 24 hours’ notice, but one that generated a lot of good will in the independent retail world.
The star signed an unknown quantity of CDs of the new album and her record company quietly dispersed them to indie record shops around the country… a move that only became apparent when stores began sharing news of their covetable new stock on social media Thursday morning.In Minneapolis, a music buyer for local store Electric Fetus told the Star-Tribune just how quickly and furtively it all went down.
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