[NBC] He’s a rock star and a businessman. And what Tom DeLonge is doing in Carlsbad could make a lot of the major music labels nervous.
Last year, "Angels and Airwaves" decided to strike out one their own without the support of a label. They not only used their own money to record their new album "Love," they also released it on their own, exclusively as a free download.
"Giving away the record for free is not because we are dumb," said DeLonge. "It's because we are trying to build the business on all these different levels." "Everyone is not making money selling records," adds bassist Matt Wachter. "We needed to find other ways to keep this going and to make money."
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