Local recording is becoming increasingly possible for amateurs. In many cases they are capable of distributing it themselves. In a number of ways the process reminds me of decline the putting-out system preceding the industrial revolution (ie. the use of middlemen providing materials for the labourers out in the countryside, and in the end the decline of said middlemen), only in this case with the opposite outcome: lots of smaller producers rather than largescale manufacturing. In the case of art, a good thing in my opinion.