I read an article by a guy from the Eagles about how musicians need to find out how to regain control of their own music. Currently the labels control most of it, so a single entity controls the style. Additionally, it gives the industry a corporate face that soothes people's consciences about piracy and stuff. He was talking about how when he was in the industry each band owned their own stuff and labels really only served for distribution and administration type stuff. Not only did it weed out the bad bands from the good ones, but it established a connection between fans and the bands.

And so on and so forth. He didn't know how to make it happen, since there's so much more money to be had in the current system. He was just defining the problem.