The Artist's 99%

record companies used to give artists money to make records, now they want artists to give them records to make them (the labels) money. you prove, first, that you can make records that sell. we'll take those records that were already selling, repackage, and resell them and give you less money-per-record than you were already making selling your independently produced, marketed and promoted project on your own, but now there's this major label logo on it, and we've added a couple tracks from today's hottest super-producers so we deserve 99% of everything you do in life, ever. #sharecropping