I cant believe people got so enraged by this? Even before everything was clarified. If you open up your whole stock to international mail order they'll most likely just get poached by a certain amount of opportunists anyway - and then whats the point in having a shop in the first place? He's basically doing everything in his power to keep it honest before it his the market, anything after that he can't be blamed for.
Regardless of how these are distributed they'll end up getting flipped - The internet did that, not vinyl. I'd be surprised to see these at a massively expensive starting price as the whole premise of this seems to be based on nostalgia, and getting back to what selling music used to be like.
So what if there's not enough of them to go round? It's not like you can get records pressed free and pay the plant back when you start selling... Anyone who's tried to put a record out themselves would understand this, all that outlay is up front and on your shoulders.
Dude is opening a record shop in his home town, isn't that the dream?
I say good luck, and block out the haters.