A major record deal will plug you into the deep pockets, leverage its contacts to your
advantage, fast track and short cut you to the A list. It is, right now the only way to
super-stardom.
For now, the idea is to make your music and your persona as an artist more attractive, more valuable and more viable. The idea is to level the playing field through
self-release and promotion and develop some bargaining power of your own. You
will cut a better deal. You will retain more of your rights. You will have some say in
your art, your career and your future. If you build it they will come, they will court, they
will bend and you will be ready for them. But don’t get all starry eyed and impatient.
Unless your career is smoking