For a long time recording was too expensive for most artists. As was duplication, distribution and getting the word out. So record labels came along, picked certain artists and relieved those burdens in exchange for ownership.
If you didn’t have a record deal it was easy to point to that as the reason no one was listening to your music. Not having the deal was the scape goat for all career short falls…and for decades it probably was.
Now it’s not that way.
»» You probably still need a team and you’re going to need some money. But you need a team who is really smart with money…and more importantly really smart with time. Yours and theirs.
