"john schuller" <superbadassmofo@hotmail.com> wrote:

Self released music.

Uh, this really doesn't answer Joseph's question. Composers & performers releasing their own recordings doesn't address the same functions as major record companies do. You may not like some or all of the functions these companies serve (I know I don't), but independent labels do not and can not serve the same functions. And these functions are so intrinsic to mass culture in the world as it is, that "self released music" alone won't change much of anything. -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb@eskimo.com