How can I start my own record label?

AggresSean

Does anybody have any constructive details about how I can start my own record label? I have my own band, our own studio and I know another band and I have a name for the label and I want to control everything. How do I start? Any info will be appreciated. Thanks.

Tofurious · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject:

record. press. release.

AggresSean · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:01 am Post subject:

gee, thanks for the info - I'm set.
I want to know how to keep the name mine (label) and about music rights.

quieteidolon · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:31 am Post subject:

call the FTC and the FCC

AggresSean · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:49 am Post subject:

I... what, who? is there any real help out there? I don't know how to get in touch with the FCC and I've never heard of the FTC.
Anybody......

quieteidolon · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:16 pm Post subject:

FTC - Federal Trade Commission. you might not need it if you plan to have a completely local label that will never cross state lines.

add .com to both of them, and their web sites come up.

Tofurious · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:53 am Post subject:

do it DIY and **** all that shit.

AggresSean · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:12 am Post subject:

Thanks for the hand up.

quieteidolon · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:30 pm Post subject:

well, DIY or not, everyone is subject to the same restrictions and registration. it's not like the government will help you, but you need to start there.

AggresSean · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 8:20 am Post subject:

Registration... that's, I think; what I really want to know about. Like I said I have a great name for a label, and real shitty band to put on it, so I want to make sure nobody can steal both, the name and my songs.
If that makes any difference, can somebody lead me down that path... it's dark and I'm scared.
Hey that reminds me of a joke:
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"this child molester is taking this kid through the forest and the kid is going on and on about being scared of the trees and the darkness and all that, and he's crying and whinning so the child molester grabs him by the arm and shakes him and says 'Look!, you're scared? how do you think I feel? I gotta come back through here by me self!'"

::buhdumbum::**CRASH**

TestTubeTeen · Puppy Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 212 Location: France

My advice : Don't release metal bands!

Hate Yer State! · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:27 am Post subject:

Yeah i'm thinking of doin my own label too.

I think the easiest way to do it is to start of with a compilation. Just go on purevolume or myspace or whatever and keep searching for bands until you find 20 or so that youu like. Then e-mail them and ask them if they wanna do the comp. They send you the songs and you put them on to a CD. But if you wanna do it seriously your gonna have to get a few CDs pressed which is usually quite expensive - so you ask all the bands to chip in for the pressing costs but then you give them a bunch of free copies of the comp to sell for themselves, that way you cover costs, sell more copies of your compilation and none of the bands get * outta money! Then any money made from this can be used to make Eps, albums for bands etc.

Well thats what I plan for mine anyway - good luck with it.

oh and the copyright thing - when you have a copy of the CD you wanna sell post it to yourself and don't open the parcel - thins makes it copyrighted for some reason but i'm not quite sure how it works.

So yeah hope it goes well.

lawn_gnomes_r_evil502 · Lion Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 931 Location: Indiana

i made my own label, no ftc, no fcc. music is uor birthright, if they want my music, let em have it, i dont give a flying ****, they obviously have heard of us if they get our music, right?

i got a recording studio, made one cd, copied it seventy-five times, handed em out, told them to copy it, and so on

TestTubeTeen · Puppy Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 212 Location: France

Whose punk could be stupid enough to steal a melody?

lawn_gnomes_r_evil502 · Lion Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 931 Location: Indiana

people who have no ideas of their own, or just so happen to be the same as ours