So what do record labels actually do? Artists seemingly can't go without them

So what do record labels actually do? Artists seemingly can't go without them.

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Provide the ability to record, advertise, press and release all the music of the last 60 years.

Also distribution, one of the most important aspects

Sit behind their big marble desks, ties done up to eleven, clicking their fingers to the fucking Lighthouse Family, getting their dick sucked by a big Alsatian dog.

An actual label just wants to fund you and distribute your music, major labels just pump out puppets and collect as much money as they can

Record, produce and promote their music, fund their gear and other expenses.

Did you really need to ask

Stick to the middle of the record and tell you what's on there.

You can also get labels for windows, bumpers and even sticky ones too.

Seems like something people could do themselves if they really tried.

Name 3 majorly famous/succesful bandcamp or souncloud artists.

Marketing, Promotion, Imaging, Releasing

>Record, produce
no
the artist usually just get money/advance and can do whatever he wants with it
he can record/produce with whomever, where ever he wants

Simon Viklund
erm... Hank Green?
Vargskelethor?
I'm sure there's more.

Pay for everything and then take all your money

here's one

impossiblenothing.bandcamp.com/

Literally who?

Seriously.

Konkwista 88
R.P.Oi!
Gracjan Rostocki
Did I win?

The DIY ethic isn't about being famous.

>not knowing about Simon Viklund
youtu.be/p4Z96WwZrL0
Yes I went out of my way to find the worst picture of him.

Not heard of them either and I spend too much time on this board.

literally anyone in the underground industrial/punk/indie scenes

every single big trap rapper comes from soundcloud, future, migos, fetty wap, lil yachty, etc

Thats handy then.

Maybe so, but record labels are still heavily involved in the process. They're financially invested and aren't going to let artists fuck around.

scaruffi.com/vol8/impossib.html

>industrial/punk/indie scenes
>successful

fucking lel

Maybe you pick the wrong threads tren.
This is what happens when you sit in the kpop general all day.

Are they all signed now?

What came first?

Bandcamp/Souncloud really made record labels pointless.

>measuring success in material wealth
How's Trump working out for ya?

depends on the contract

Thor made their own record label just for their band. Does that count? They basically did it all themselves.

inorite, having those 8 followers on soundcloud makes it all worth it

Literally who are you to judge?

I don't get it.

what about actual instrument bands. sound engineering is a complex skill so you'd need to pay for studio time with an expert which is expensive as fuck

Mozart
Bach
Justin Bieber in his early days.

That wasn't mentioned in the post.

So basically a record label pays a radio station to play a song and once that song is meme'd into enough people's heads a movie studio pays the record label to use it in their movie.

The record label, the radio station, and movie studio are all owned by the same company; it's really brilliant. The only down side is that it's become more difficult to blackmail homosexuals and runaway teenagers into working for pittance, so they've switched to minorities, betamales, and eastern european mail-order brides like Bebe Rexha. This is a pretty big part of why rap and electrotrash is so popular right now, it's the perfect filler for this formula.

>why do you need a movie studio to produce your movie?
>why do you need a publishing house to publish your novel?
>why do you need a dealer to get black tar heroin to bang up your arm?

this is how retarded you sound brother

>>why do you need a publishing house to publish your novel?
You could publish a fucking book yourself if you tried, don't pretend like that's not the case.

And you can produce a movie yourself and make heroin yourself. Indeed, you can make an album yourself if you really want to.

I don't understand how one can go through life having reading comprehension that is this poor. Jesus christ man.

Car Seat Headrest

stop being so pedantic

you know perfectly well the difference between uploading a shitty novel into the kindle store amateur void and an actual publisher marketing, printing and distributing a writer's work

fugazi

Planning For Burial

you may not be here anymore but read David Byrne's "How Music Works"

there's a whole chapter on record labels, types of contract deals, etc

PS. I'm not David

Fuck off shill

it quite literally answers any question OP could have about record labels, much better than anyone in this thread could

He doesn't even have to legally buy it

PS. STILL not david.

most bands do this

If you're not shilling, provide a free copy.

>most bands do this
Do they? Why bother giving it it's own name then?

hey david

This is the only correct answer.
/thread

>but muh marketing

Unironically, Trinidad James. He stole all the beats for his first album from SC, which caused copyright issues when he got signed.