Every musician that thinks that the record company is ripping him off, charging too much for their music, whatever, has always had the opportunity to go out and create their OWN record company. Upon which they invariably find out that things cost a LOT more than they ever imagined. Look at any record label that WAS started by musicians... A&M, for instance. It ends up no different from any other label, paying only a small percentage of the profits back to the musician. Seems that running a label, promoting, finding and recording artists, getting the product to the stores with no guarantee whatsoever that anyone will ever BUY said product is nowhere NEAR the walk in the park that musicians like to pretend...