We Solved Music Distribution. We Forgot to Solve Making a Living.

Making a Scene Presents - We Solved Music Distribution. We Forgot to Solve Making a Living.

There was a time when one of the biggest problems facing an independent musician was simply getting a record into the marketplace. You could make a great album, spend money you probably didn't have recording it, press a few hundred CDs, load the boxes into your car and then discover that most of the record business had no particular interest in helping you put those CDs anywhere people might actually buy them. Distribution was a gate, and the people standing in front of that gate usually wanted to know who your label was, who your distributor was and whether somebody more important than you had already decided that you mattered. Independent musicians spent decades trying to get around that system, and eventually technology did something rather wonderful: it kicked a large hole in the wall.

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