Do It Yourself
The problem for me was 'art' vs. 'product'. (If your problem is moving as much product as possible skip this section). Art, to me, feels bigger than stuff you buy at the store. Marketing, in my opinion, turns music into product.

High on a rock in Joshua Tree, heavily conflicted by my hatred for the music business vs my own desire to make and share music, Eris and her fungal emissaries told me to 'do it yourself'. Make your own records. Put them on the web. Send them through the mail. Get it out there and out of your system and then make some more. Keep it as clean as possible.

What's the difference? Sending me $6 for a CD of my music empowers me, my friends who helped, some hemp paper vendors, a few minor players in the plastics industry, a few paper product sellers, the US post office, and the notion of D.I.Y. It doesn't support a whole lot of things I find sad and ugly, primarily, the corporate mentality which holds that profit is the highest value attainable.

These are some very complex issues. I'm not meaning to sound like some sort or authority on art or culture, I'm just speaking my mind.
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