1.   Masklin was used to labels in the Store, but this was pretty big even by big label standards.

2.   The amount they contribute is up to each individual and it is likely that big record labels could complain.

3.   And for a band with an album on a big label, a slow start can be fatal.

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

5.   Despite an explosive rise in album sales in the last three years, Ms. DiFranco has turned down repeated, ever-larger offers from big record labels.

6.   Immediately, he auditioned for the head of a big record label.

7.   It was signed to Epic Records when big labels were slavering over anything that came from Seattle.

8.   Last October, Bertelsmann became the first and only big record label to partner with Napster.

9.   LP has never been a band that expected to record locally and hope for the big labels to come to them.

10.   Small labels and e-distributors say that the big labels could squeeze them out of the online market.