Where the big labels are often out to copy past success, he looks for originality.

But the big labels want to shut down the entire service.

Every assorted type of component, each with a big label above the box.

I guess the big labels have more than privacy on their mind!

Or the high quality offerings produced by most big labels?

The company is no longer the biggest independent label in the country.

They had been Canada's biggest domestic label in the 1950s and 1960s.

"Back then they thought I was crazy," he said of friends at bigger labels.

The industry adage is more true now than ever: The big labels are just trying to make some music in the money business.

"I can't imagine that a big label will be interested," he said.