A funny thing happens when you go into business as a record label: suddenly you get a lot of people sending you email asking where they can send their CD for you to release.

There are a couple of important presumptions there.

The first, and more easily dismissed presumption, is that if they send you a CD, you will be interested in releasing it. By Sturgeon’s Law, that’s sort of a stretch right there. But let’s not dwell on that too much.

The second presumption is much more interesting. Even if we posit that they have recorded the finest music ever heard by the ears of humankind, they are presuming that you will want them to send it.

Hell, why wouldn’t you want to hear it? (more…)