You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.
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The only thing major labels can really offer is money.
As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.
My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.
Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.
Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.
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