Everyone who listens to music needs to READ THIS!

[LeftyMom]

55. Not as much, I don't think.

Almost no major labels involved, and I think people are a lot more likely to buy your stuff when they know they're rewarding you for your work and not SoullessAutotunedShiteFactory, a division of GiantLabel, Inc, which is a division of some multinational whose main business is making nuclear submarines out of ground up toddlers and panda tears.

Plus if you go see a show at some abandoned titty bar on the seedy side of town* for $10 and the band's album and shirt are on a card table for $15 each, you know the band's getting their share of that or you're going to hear about it before you go home. If you order it off Amazon or itunes or something, who knows? And who's really going to be convinced to stop stealing from giant corporate labels when they've been stealing from musicians for years? I don't think that's a winning argument and I think it's telling that you don't hear many musicians on major labels making it.

*actual local venue, no longer extant- the foot of sawn-off brass bar hanging down over the stage was a classy touch