plaster wrote:i usually know to trip about netlabels...but something brings me down and then i see em equal as major labels.
the onyl difference is non profit ,which tend to overcome major labels in quality.
Not sure quite what you are trying to say here, worded kind of strangely..
Does bring up a point though... i'd like to see the day when the "netlabel" isn't some free online archive of random "stuff". Yes, there are lots of great netlabels, but as soon as people get away from being stuck on vinyl exclusively and start letting digital technologies become the mainstay, perhaps we can start seeing alot more commercial labels distributed digitally and hopefully upstarts that distribute only digitally. Free is free... people always like getting free stuff, but I'd pay for quality downloads and i'm sure lots of people would. The closest thing we've got are pay music services right now and they all suck, every last one of them... low quality downloads and poor selection. It's about time a bunch of artists, entrepreneurs, engineers and other intelligent people had a party and started making this work. Digital distribution has nothing but advantages, and to be blunt, it pisses me off that most labels don't adopt it - no one should have to drive to a shop or wait for an order to come in when they know something fresh is out there that they want for spinning or even just listening to..