Should I start my own label?

Recently I was deeply searching for some cool labels where Omega Code should try to get filliated. When I think about a label, I think not on how they can help you out, because nowdays, they can’t do much, a band has to do pretty much everything (unless you want to be something like Madonna), so what they can offer is a good structure of distribution and a cool line up among them, and ‘avant gardeness’.

If you think about it, why should we care about distribution? Nobody is buying CDs anymore. The whole ’sales’ are being made in the internet (when people actually want to buy it). So what would be the distribution? Put your link everywhere and say “Pay as much as you want”. That’s maybe not be the solution but when you see Radiohead and NIN sales, maybe is the option that works now.

A cool line up? Well, there are some record labels like Relapse and Roadrunner who has a cool line up of artists, but making an analysis, most of the bands start to get shaped by the label, as the label wants to ‘build a way to sell’ the band. I certainly don’t want to feel limited by anyone. The labels are very concerned about the selling of records, but if that does not work now, why should they shape the bands and not let them free, because they won’t sell anyway.

Avant-Gardeness ? The only labels I think are open for the future are on the electronic music field. Warp Records is the best example on it. They really push forward the music and pass the boundries of normality. When comes to ‘metal’, there are practicaly no labels that think that way. Mostly because ‘metal’ itself doesn’t seems a genre open for changes or evolutions. What if i want to change the thinking of the music i am doing in the following years? I would have to change label too. Wouldn’t I?

If i put all that in the paper, I wouldn’t have much choices, but open a label to get free of boundaries.
Would that work out? Would I be only having more headache?
Only God knows.