toren's Blog > Artists Say No to Major Labels

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posted by toren on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 9:43 AM

The future for indie artists is giving away their music as the hook to build a fan base then making money off of touring and merchandise sales. Once you have a big enough fan base you can do things like special edition albums with better artwork, ringtones, etc. that you can charge for. Bottom line if done right a band is far better off having a good web marketing and PR person than a label.

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