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  • More Bands Ditching Record Labels

    05/30/2007 5:02:12 PM PDT · by Extremely Extreme Extremist · 24 replies · 400+ views
    CBS 5 SAN FRANCISCO ^ | 29 MAY 2007 | AP
    (CBS) NEW YORK -- When the band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah packaged and shipped its new CD, called "Some Loud Thunder," they released it without a record label. And this was after their first self-financed album had sold more than 200,000 copies, prompting plenty of offers from the big labels, which they turned down. When asked why, Sean Greenhalgh, the band's drummer, told CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason, "The question that we asked record companies was essentially, 'What can you do for us that we can't do for ourselves?'" Billboard magazine made the band the poster boys of a...