knuckle_head
Well-Known Member
Just because you are ignorant or unappreciative of anything older than 'recent' doesn't negate its having been done successfully. Just because it's easier now does not make it better now.Congratulations. As far as I'm concerned though, I've never heard any worthwhile non-electronic DIY music until fairly recently. Not to mention that today's technology is vastly better than the 90s tech and then there's the internet.This "new age" is nearly 20 years old now. That's longer than most musical era's we've experienced in the last 200 years. I was booking DIY shows, pressing zines, recording demos, building my first home studio, etc... back in the early 90's.
Welcome to your hobby - especially if you see music sales as unimportant to success or viability.Why bother? You can just record at home alone and release it via the internet.Can you afford to fund tours, recording, duplication, promotion, distribution, merch, and still feed yourselves?
It isn't slow and it is decades old - indie labels exist exactly because of mind sets like yours. Labels exist to succeed - any business venture does. And by the way, no one gets a label deal by "just record(ing) at home alone and releas(ing) it via the internet." Unless you want to be a Justin Bieber.Yes, and it's slowly starting to shift towards that. We're definitely not there yet though, plenty of people are still using the labels.If I could do it then ANYONE can do it now.
The laws that protect labels protect me as an independent - whether or not I prosecute anyone or have them jailed. If the penalties associated with infringement come back to the rights holder it does indeed make it viable to prosecute.They're not doing it for you. They're doing it for the big labels, I highly doubt that any indie artist would be able to put anyone in jail.and it's a good thing if you see music as a business at all as opposed to just a hobby