[Chad Fairbanks]

I can't remember the last major label album I have bought - I buy indie music, mainly because you get great music, without the 'packaging' and without the bloated price... I don't want sugar-coated mindless garbage, thank you very much. ;0)

[PoorMuttly]

Now that professional recording can be done on a desktop computer with a good sound card and software (like the one sitting next to me at my desk!), that spelled the beginning of the end. I'd expect stage shows to get better too, since there's no enormous drain on the profits. Industries come and go, through history. I'm sure Ice House owners went nuts when the refrigerator was invented, and caught on. Oh well.

[weegee]

Careful there, many indie labels have been bought up by Warner Brothers and other majors in recent years (sometimes it is as simple as a distribution agreement).

Some of the true indy labels that I enjoy are:>BR> Norton Records
Sympathy For The Record Industry
Estrus Records

Hightone was good but some of their talent has been walking away of late. Bloodshot Records have some good releases.

For licensed reissues of older material Sundazed and Bear Family are good (Rhino is owned by WB and isn't the company that it was 15 years ago).