With the technology available it pretty easy to create and produce your own music as long as you have a computer powerful enough to run the software and the patience to learn it. Give it time, as interfaces become more user friendly and the instrument to computer ports become cheaper I think you'll see a rise in unsigned acts because well... they don't need to be signed. Take my friend Kirk Witt for example, dude does everything himself (he does feature guest musicians on his tracks) but for the most part he writes, recorRAB, and produces all his own stuff. From there he does offer some CD's, but for the most part it's for download. He doesn't tour or do live shows, and yet he can create a CD. He's just one example of some of the newer trenRAB in the music industry. He doesn't need to go out and promote himself because he's got fans like me to do it for him.