So here’s a shocker – record labels are not out to get you, or at least not most of the time, or at least not most of the time if you’re not an idiot. Okay, there was a few layers to that and we definitely need to unpack them a little bit but I think you are starting to see what I’m getting at. What’s incredibly frustrating for me as a label guy is hearing normal people say that they feel labels are there to screw over artists constantly. And I get it, a lot of artists feel like they have been screwed over by labels over the years, and some of them probably have. The thing is a lot of others just didn’t read the fine print, were rushed into it of a desire for, money, fame, and fortune or simply were trying to find a way to wheedle out of what they know was a contract that was not in their favor and now that they have clout they are throwing a fit over it. The thing is – the music industry is, shockingly, not a huge scam. It’s just a complicated business.