10/09/2007 01:19:50 PM 
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Posted by Ed Cotton
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It only makes sense that acts that big would eventually start doing this. After all, most of what a record company provides to an established artist is overhead. Up-and-comers need the marketing might of a label to muscle their way onto the airwaves and the (diminishing) shelf space in record stores. Self-produced acts like NIN especially have little in the way of needs from a label.
Posted by raafi on 10/10/2007 12:34 AM
It only makes sense that acts that big would eventually start doing this. After all, most of what a record company provides to an established artist is overhead. Up-and-comers need the marketing might of a label to muscle their way onto the airwaves and the (diminishing) shelf space in record stores. Self-produced acts like NIN especially have little in the way of needs from a label.
Posted by raafi on 10/10/2007 12:34 AM
It appears you don't have Flash installed.
This is the way that the music industry is headed. There's a site called SongSlide -www.songslide.com- that lets any musician sell their music and let fans pick the price they pay. Ant band can do what Radiohead is doing.