I just knew a lot of people who were in bands when I was much (much) younger. They would make cassettes of their music and sell them directly to their friends and fans. And when you think about it, record companies are always bitching about how much they spend in advertisement. The bands I knew relied on their fans to promote them. The fans always did a far better job of it than any record company at zero or little cost. I can even name one band that everyone will recognize that relied on their fans to promote their music (something funny - the record companies of the time really weren't that interested in this band because they weren't "marketable") - Grateful Dead. Mary Hooker-Myers // Gryffindor
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Date: 2006-01-18 11:22 pm (UTC)Mary Hooker-Myers // Gryffindor