[paul9290]

That would mean you as the artist either wrote or co-wrote the song. As you would then be getting songwriting royalties from your music publishing company, but not royalties off the sound recording. Those recordings belong to the labels and all artists with little to no bargaining power never get a piece of those royalties.

[pyre]

There are bands that are still able to maintain the copyright on their stuff, though they are probably few and far between.