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There are models of music release which were once seen as innovative but have now become the role model in which everybody employs, such is the shrinking dominance of once proud record labels that the participation of the fan has become even more demanding, crucial to a band’s or artist’s success. It is a relationship in which the fan has a say, perhaps not on style or delivery, but in the process, sponsoring in effect the realm of fortune it costs these days in which to produce a record, a piece of art.