awwwwww get out the crying towel. If you foolishly enter into contract with a "pay back the advance clause" you damn well better know what you are doing. Your record better deliver and if it does you'll still make money unless you got shit management and no lawyers. It's a business, not a bunch of potheads getting lucky touring around in mom's minivan. It's a set-up: the machine is fixed, the bands that make have a lot of money behind them (i.e. busness advisors and pro management firms) already. They all sign up with a p.r. company eventually. You're living in a fantasy world, pal. I've lost too many years gutting the "musik" industry underbelly to feel any sympathy for your tacky analogy. The only companies that suffer are indie labels, but the big label monoliths don't a fuck about the indies, either. It's dog eat jackal, so shut the fuck up