Intrepid...
There is no law that says that "you must" incorporate yourself to sell your music.
Think of all the thousands of home-businesses out there that are not incorporated. Incorporating yourselves will open up a can of worms that will be MUCH more costly than you can imagine.... especially if you don't have a tremendous amount of success with your musical venture.
Are you prepared to hire an accountant and staff a lawyer?
What about paying taxes?... you don't *even* want to go there! The tax structure for a business is waaay more complicated than you may think.
However, I do suggest that you register yourself as a publisher and publish the music yourself. This can be done quite easily by joining a union like ASCAP. Publishing your own music is MUCH more important than incorporating yourselves, believe me.
There are 2 major things that are NOT required to release your own CD....
1: A Label
(and)
2: A business license or incorporation
To incorporate yourself would be a waste of time and money at this point. Wait and see if you have a product that is flying off of the shelves before you make that decision.
For further info on joining ASCAP and becoming your own publisher, go to...
www.ascap.com
It's relatively easy to do.
BTW, our CD... The Mac Brothers "Assorted Flavors" was released last week and sales have been going quite well so far. They're available at all Borders Books & Music in the Chicagoland area, and we'll be in Tower Records by next week. We're also in some independent stores, too.
They're also available at amazon.com , cdnow.com , and a bunch of other e-tailers.
We're also starting to get some interest in radio airplay from a couple of small-market stations.
Our website is almost completed, and I'll post the link as soon as it's 100 percent finished. It will include long samples of each of the 10 songs on the cd and some nice graphics.
[This message has been edited by Buck62 (edited 07-20-2000).]