Re:The dawn of online piracy (2015)
by mikepurvis on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:03PM
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You still need to build up that fanbase somehow. So many _pieces_ of the industry infrastructure may yet have a place (agents, financing, mentorship, hustling, whatever), but yeah definitely the sun is setting on the old-school business of "getting signed" as being the big goal for an artist looking to go big.
In that model at most the band it going to need professional recording and producing services, and maybe some help from song writers.
But they don't need a middle man in the recording company to front the money and control them.