Is "DIY" Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose? [The New Model]

When I get sick, I tend to read music books. (I don't really know why—maybe because all the plots are basically the same?) And during a recent illness, I broke out Michael Azerrad's telling of the indie foundational myth, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and it's informed a lot of my thinking lately about the cyclical nature of the genre and our brave new world in which We Are All Indies. Whereas doing it yourself—DIY—was once one option among many and employed for specific aims, now it see...

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