I mentioned recording engineer, recording artist, and songwriter Steve Albini in a recent post when describing the approach Gus takes to record engineering.
Steve Albini is definitely an interesting character in the indie/rock music world. He is well known for fronting the band Big Black and his later bands, for “recording” Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ album and about 1500 other recording projects (including The Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’ album), for his early album reviews and columns, and for operating a recording studio that operates on an hourly basis and is friendly to relatively low-budget bands. He also wrote an article called The Problem With Music in about 1994, in which he criticizes the corporate rock process of signing and dropping hopeful bands while bleeding them dry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini
http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17
