More on Record Labels

Here's an excellent article on NPR's site that backs up what I was saying in my last post pretty nicely:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111172341&ps=cprs

Without wanting to get into too much trouble with NPR, I thought this summed it up:

The Posies left Geffen in the late 1990s — not over money, but a lack of promotion. They went back to PopLlama, the small independent label where they'd first recorded an album called Failure, and released one called Success. It was made very cheaply, and Auer estimates it sold about 25,000 copies.

"I actually saw a check for that record that went in my pocket," Auer says. "I never saw a check from the sales of any of the records I've made on the major labels."