With the release of Diana Ross' Supertonic on Motown Records, [[1) I was surprised it was still in existence, and [[2), that DR had a relationship with them [[other than the expanded reissues).
It occured to me that I'm not aware of record labels any longer, I may know a singer, but not their record label. Whereas even if I didn't know a singer or group if they were on Motown, or PIR, or Atlantic, or Stax or even Electra, I would sometimes take a chance and purchase it. Not now. I'm relegated to purchasing singers or groups I know and if it's streaming I have no idea what and if they are on a label, or if it is self released.
Again I think I was fortunate to come up through the times of these great record labels as well as 45's and LP Vinyl.