Use your disillusion

[...] Most bands never sign a record contract. They are the losers in a Darwinian struggle for access to the facilities of the mediators: the record companies and the concert promoters. [...] The losers have often gone through a great deal of sacrifice and frustration before they call it quits or their bands dissolve around them. A writer for a metal magazine observed that while there are very few success stories "there are literally thousands of tales of rock 'n' roll heartbreak and disillusion."

Heavy Metal, the Music and its Culture, Deena Weinstein (Da Capo)