Punks set up their own labels
Bands now can put out their own stuff too. I know you don't get the marketing if you don't go with a big label, but it didn't do the Arctic Monkeys any harm.

I'm just jealous that a busker in the town centre probably makes more than me by using their (choose own deity)-given talent. If I could make money just writing all day, or making pots or furniture, I'd jump at it. I know it's not all beer and boffing, but there is a bit surely? I've read the stories. Certainly more than you find in the average call centre, factory or shop.

I don't begrudge musicians money, and I still buy music and go to gigs and also give to buskers - but I'll also buy books 2nd hand from charity shops, look at pictures in a free gallery, read an old newspaper found in a coffee shop etc.

Good luck to you - we all make the choices we have to make at the time we have to make them. Talent just makes that choice harder if you have to give up the dream to live the reality.

[Che Grimsdale: making us all common]
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 17:29, Reply)