Rush Job

Is Beach Boy Brian Wilson’s new self-titled solo album selling too well? Well, it’s selling well enough that many area record stores are sold out--and blaming Warner Bros. for not making enough albums, tapes and CDs.

“We did get caught short,� acknowledged Warners exec Bob Merlis, who said the label had already sold 200,000 copies but at mid-week was still unable to fill requests for “about 7,500� additional copies. “But our shipping policy is based on orders--and I don’t think retailers realized how popular this album would be. When we suddenly got lots of re-orders, we just couldn’t fill them all immediately.�