It's covid and personnel restrictions on factories. It's a shortage on materials. It's the loss of a couple plants recently. It's the massive surge in demand. And it's the plants that do exist, prioritizing records from major label artists and RSD above all else.

This is the best article I've seen on the issues. It was sent out by an artist when their record, supposed to have been shipped out last month, got hit with a 5 month delay. Earlier in September, he said he was relatively confident the record would go out in Sept as expected on the pre-order from April.

https://investmentmonitor.ai/analysis/vinyl-shortage-production-major-labels