Article: So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star? Then Try Do-It-Yourself Recording

Not so long ago, if you owned a guitar and wrote your own songs, your chances of ending up in a studio, recording your very own album, were about as likely as being struck by lightning.

But good news, would-be rock stars. Your odds have dramatically improved. All you need now is your guitar, your songs and some spare time.

Oh, and be sure to bring your checkbook.

In the same tradition as aspiring novelists who pay a vanity publisher to print their tomes, guitar-toting dreamers are no longer waiting to be discovered: They're laying out big bucks - upward of $10,000 in some cases - to record their own albums.

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