[JohninCt.]

I found it interesting. There are way too many artists who now put out indie music with small labels, and many (or most), get little air play and though they may be great artists, they just never make it. No matter how much they keep pushing, the buying masses never hear them, and they don't make enough money to keep going at it. So big labels are still the best way to go, as he mentioned. They can get the advertising and send out all the demos that will get lisrtened to. I remember working at a radio station in the 1970's and seeing 20 + promo records come in every day. I also remember the play sheets that came to the program director, and they advised him what to play. I imagine they are still being printed, and that many program directors still go by them, and don't even listen to half those new promo cds that come in. So the big labels likely what will get played and pushed as it always has been. I see no way that this will change (in the next 20 years or so anyway). I still remember when I found the Shadows lp in a $1 bin (sealed new) and bought several copies to give to friends. It was a wonderfull lp and it fizzeled as for sales. The times were changing, and it showed by that lp ending up in the discard piles. Sometimes even the big labels take a bite, no matter what the quality.