Indie genre

Although many people associate the term 'Indie' with a style of music. Indie can also be associated with the selling of music.  When searching for distribution of music online i came across this website http://www.indierecordshop.org/ . Which is an independent music shop which specialises advertising major bands and also local music shops ( not just of the indie genre ). This website shows a list of independent music shops. That can be classed as indie as they are not being funded by a bigger organisation E.G. virgin records is a huge organisation which doesn't solely focus on selling music but has also branched out in to selling other products which will give them a bigger budget to spend on advertising which smaller in dependant stored wont have.