But without label backing, nobody plays it on radio, and therefore nobody knows it exists to buy it.
And hardly anyone makes significant money of actual music sales these days, it's all merchandising and concert ticket sales, even with massive bands like say, Iron Maiden, you might not like them, but they have shifted millions of albums. If they stopped doing tours they wouldn't sell any T-Shirts and they wouldn't make any money.

Not that I reckon they actually need to keep doing it if they didn't want to, but a new band doesn't have that luxury.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 9:33, Reply)