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Date: 2003-07-30 10:46:30

Comment:

There are already thousands of sites like that; individual bands set them up for themselves, and other sites exist that invite new artists. Surely you've heard of them, right?

Oh yeah, you haven't, and no one else has, because they're all just blips on the Net. Because there's no marketing behind them. Recording companies do a lot of scummy things, but face it, without their marketing and promotional prowess, you would never hear about any of the bands you love, because they'd never get off the nightclub circuit. Believe it or not, the recording companies do serve a purpose in all this. In a real way, they cut through the clutter of the millions of garage bands out there and make it happen for the bands that make their cut (they might not always get the best, but the must be doing somethign right). So yes, they do deserve somethig out of it.