Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00022LIQ6/magnetbox/ref%3Dnosim/002-8335854-7044814

"When Lit scored a hit with "My Own Worst Enemy" little did the Southern California band know how prophetic the song would be--it became 1999's most-played modern rock track according to Billboard and drove the accompanying album A Place in the Sun to platinum sales. But it also set expectations unreasonably high for a follow-up. When that didn't happen two years later with the release of Atomic, the band lost its major label deal. Undaunted Lit returns with what is arguably its strongest set of songs on this self-titled, self-released set. The disc feels lyrically darker and more personal than its predecessors but the band retains much of its melodic punk-ska crunch in songs such as "Looks Like They Were Right" and "Times Like This." Meanwhile, creeping maturity and the hard knocks they've endured result in unlikely ballads like "Lullaby" and a faithful cover of the Cure's "Pictures of You." Perhaps it's too early to count them out just yet. --Aidin Vaziri "

of course the album feels darker and more personal, the record company isnt telling you what to sing!

These are the types of artists who have too be supported because not only do you help them when you buy their new album, you deny money to the big four. Other artists will start standing up and realizing, "Hey, we don't need these leeches". The avalanche starts slowly, but soon becomes unstoppable. Great music sites like Dmusic are today's music stations and we don't need Clear Channel or Infinity.

Quick question...would I be allowed to broadcast dmusic on a low power FM station in my neighborhood if the legislation doesn't get derailed?

The first single "looks like they were right", is catchy and pretty good.
Check it out. This is what i love to see. A major label drops a band and they continue to be successful and are greatful that they got dropped!

Question: If one buys this CD on Amazon, does the band see any profit? Because it appears to be more expensive than buying it directly from the band's website.
Man, it's been a long, long time since an artist has seen any money from a CD I've bought.

mystlw - I think it depends on the deal they have with their new label, but you can be 99 percent sure its alot more than the RIAA would give them.

Yeap, the majors are feeling the pinch. Make no mistake. Isn't just sites like here and DMusic that is killing them.

The whole sue'em all campaign is backfiring on them. They have reaped more in bad publicity than they can ever recoup through such methods. No one wants the anticopy wrapped with their songs. Trouble is that many are just starting to learn what it means and many more have yet to discover that buying an mp3 isn't the glory that they thought it would be.

Sites selling those mp3's aren't doing well either. The majors get all but a tiny fraction, just like they do when they do pay an artist anything. If a site sells mp3s they better have something else that interests the public or they aren't going to make it on what they get from the sale. No bargain there for either the customer or the site.

But the idies are doing very well. They charge far less than the cd's you would buy in a record store or even a discount store for that matter. The artists are getting paid and getting paid well. They are gaining acceptance as both being in the public eye (inspite of the majors and their control of the market) and in receiving the acknowledgement of being a band that doesn't need the support of the majors to get out there in the market and be heard. Since they are not under the control of the majors, they can actually say what it is they want to say in their songs and it isn't sugar coated to say what the majors want. In otherwords you hear talent.

This is just another chink in the wall for the majors and it is high time we were seeing something else besides the homogenized, bland, no talent offerings that are put across the no character radio stations across this nation.

I wish them well in their seeking of fame and fortune. Fame they could probably have with the majors for the price of their creative soul and any money they might have stood a chance to get.

I have the same question as mystlw, but also about earlier releases. For the band's CD released in 1999, A Place in the Sun, who owns the copyrights, and who gets the money from the sale?

My copy of A Place In The Sun has RCA/BMG logos on it, so Big Music makes money. But you could do what I do, buy it pre-owned. (You can get it for 3.99+ at secondspin.com.)