"My name is Avi and I started Springman Records in 1996. I am regularly blown away at how far it has come since. Here is some information about us.

My goals are to help get great music made, and then help get it out there to the people who will appreciate it. I don't have aspirations of turning this into a huge company, but I do want us to be the very best in the world at meeting the needs of our bands and the people who buy our records. We are not in competition with anyone, and are always looking at what everyone else is doing to get new ideas and see what we can do ourselves to improve.

The label really picked up momentum in the summer of 2000 when I got some friends to drive along the entire Vans Warped Tour with me so we could sneak in to every show and walk around selling our "Punk Rock Strike" CDs for a buck or two each. We were the first people to ever even attempt such a ridiculous stunt, and somehow ended up selling over 17,000 CDs exclusively at Warped Tour shows! This got us instant coast-to-coast recognition, and provided an excellent foundation for distribution, touring, promotion, and just about everything. In recent years a lot of other people have been copying this one with varied success, and of course we have continued to improve on it and bust out with new more effective even crazier promotions. We have been an official sponsor of the Warped Tour since, and still feel that we are one of the most effective groups out there, working way harder than nearly any other sponsor and having way more fun.

We go out of our way to treat our bands right, and only do single-album deals. This means that our bands are free to leave the label whenever they want. If another label were able to offer them something better than what we could do, or better meet their needs, we would be very happy for them and encourage them to make the switch. We work on trust and friendship, and care about the people in the bands we work with a lot more than the bands themselves. And incase you care, we usually do "net 50" deals, which means that profits are split 50/50 after costs are covered, and we keep ownership of the masters or at least exclusive world-wide production and distribution rights for the records we put out (but every case is different, and nothing is ever set in stone)."

(from the Springman Records bio)