Are record labels really as over as they say? is the future filled with bands spending their hard earned money on affordable recording equipment rather than studio time? It seems as if we, the music makers, get on with the work, we can free ourselves of the shackles ""record labels"" filled with their own self importance can go fuck themselves. I've entered 2008 with a sense of real power. I have spent a little bit of money on some half decent studio gubbins, moved in with my band, and am just about to embark on what can only be described as shameless music geek love ins. We don't have to worry about how much our label is paying on the pressing of the 2000 CDs they're making us feel guilty they're pressing in the first place! We can just record it, take our time, make it good and fucking upload it. the costs so far have been the recording stuff, which to be honest i would have bought anyway.
So really all a record label serves as these days, is a middle man between you and your PR/booking agents. Well as much as it grieves me, I will do that shit if it means there is no pressure to recoup their fucking costs...... they're never bothered about ours! I rarely felt that working with DIY record labels felt like the partnership they wanted to make out we had, as they never seemed to acknowledge that we were as beneficial for them as they were for us... fuck punk rock martyrdom.... Labels, Booking Agents, Promoters, Writers(ha!)... I have met some lovely people, and those, I try to keep in touch with, but the majority seem to be looking to be put on the thanks list of bands CDs, and get on the guest list to their big London support slots, and basically do everything they can to part of being in a band without actually getting in the fucking van.
Of fuck it, as if thats ever changed since time began, or as if it will ever change. Fuck you.
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