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Originally Posted by wendigo
^ That's nice, but don't you want as many people as possible listening to your music, then? Labels are a means to that end, even if it's something you consider separate from fiscal success.
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Again. Depends. After a certain level of notoriety, your fans kind of become unreliable as judges of your music. In person they'll tell you how awesome you are and be too nervous to really give honest criticism. On the net you'll often get the people who rant and rave about how great you are, juxtaposed with the people who rant and rave about how your new album is a sellout. And even the honest ones don't really know you, so they can't really get where you're coming from in as personal a way as you might want.
If you crave success, or just even just relevance, then yeah, you're gonna need a label, but if all you want to do is play music and get meaningful feedback, critically or just emotionally, from people who are relevant to your own world, then you could probably just stick to playing dingy, local coffee shops or basement venues where only local artists get billed. Or just sing at your church, or play guitar for your friends at parties.