I think the question is do they need artistic freedom or money ? no kidding .. because it is about that .. they can have their own label and do what they want but they will then be short of money to organize concerts etc .... a big machine record company will ALSO give them tons of cash beside the lack of artistic freedom... they cannot have it all the money and the freedom... and I am not sure they have been forced to do stuff they didn't want to do that much