Comfortable Disappearance

I’ve expressed my distaste for major record labels before here, and I’m more than happy to do it again, thanks to Tiny Mix Tapes:

INDIEBURN.COM is the latest development in increasing relations between digital distribution sites and independent artists. The site, which launched late last month, offers music downloads in mp3 form by only independent artists and labels and returns 50 percent (!) of the profits to the artist — a figure virtually unheard of among larger labels.

This is fantastic, and illustrates my argument for listening to independent music. It’s not just about the sound of music to me, and alot of other people. While which record label an artist is on is up to them, it’s really unfortunate when artists decide to move to major labels, because they really do give musicians the short end of the proverbial stick.