We’ve reached the point where independent musicians and artists must function as entrepreneurs. Any musician or artist who doesn’t act as an efficient corporation will be castrated by the competition.
When there is a natural disaster in an area - FEMA, a federal company, is known to notoriously respond slowly. Although they respond slowly, there is no rival government agency that people can turn to for the same service. A private company such as StateFarm can’t act as inefficiently as FEMA because this would cause policy-holders to switch insurance companies if they felt their buddies were getting better advances from a different company. Independent musicians and artists are no different. If they play a gig with shitty sound equipment, people will move on to a mainstream band who they know won’t let them down.
Note to all aspiring independent creative people: this is war!
via frosty
