Yeah, we all hate the big record labels, but this sounded a bit too much even for the soulless, capitalist music industry, so I looked it up.
Read this: http://www.prefixmag.com/news/emi-distribution-changes-smaller-and-less-abrupt-t/30814/
It turns out that this effects only a small number of indie stores and they are not going to be filling shopping carts at Wall Mart--they are going to be ordering from third party distributors.
However, if it feels better to hate, please disregard.

Please, do look up the difference between "nitpick" and "quibble".