Was that all of that sweet, sweet airplay doesn't just happen by accident.  A record company works and pays fucking hard to get songs on radio and TV.  It's all publicity to generate sales (to benefit them) but it's also royalties in the pockets of the songwriters.  Big royalties.

I think what I'm trying to get at is that the record industry - in dire need of renovation as it is - is not a useless and defunct leech.  If it  didn't exist, somebody certainly would have to invent it.  Radio stations deal with label publicists, record shops^* deal with big distributors.  In a world where every band went independent, it would be days before companies sprang up offering promotion services (in exchange for a cut, of course) and months before radio stations refused to even speak to anyone except these companies, as it's just too much of a waste of their time.

^*Okay, I guess it's entirely possible that the concept of a record shop may well become irrelevant in the not too distant future.

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