It’s all about who you are affiliated with. If you want to bring it back to the Music Industry, the decision to have no affiliate links (blogroll) will most likely point back the musician or manager being worried about the affiliations. Honestly if you are actively involved in your career than you not going to be worried about the affiliations because your going to take the time to look at the links before you approve them. And if you’re not willing to be affiliated with your fans than who are you affiliated with? Your Label?

Thanks David Stern, but this is as much of a link exchange as you’re going to get… Although now that I’ve mentioned your name in my tags and so-forth people will find you, but unfortunately they may not find your website. They may be brought here to see how you spammed me. Luckily I haven’t said anything mean, and your website is actually legit.
and yet i’m still not linking to you…

Hi,
My name is David Stern, and I am contacting you on behalf of our client
wwwthamesgascom

Thames-Gas is one of the leading “Plumbing and Heating Company” in the
UK, offering a Rolls Royce Service to our customers at

all times from the initial call to their telephone operative to diagnosing
the fault and providing a solution.

I have visited your site and see that your site is sufficiently related
to their domain. It would be great if we can have

website www.thamesgas.com linked to yours, which would not only attract
and benefit the B2B visitors to your site but also

would be helpful for us. In lieu of this link, we will provide a link for
your site from one of our best directories and from

same PageRank page and the reason why we will not be linking back from
thamesgas site is to rule out the link exchange

approach which is not so search engine friendly.

My site details are as follow:-

URL : httpwwwthamesgascom
Title : Plumbing Repair London
Description : Contact Thames Gas at 08001313832 for plumbing repair and
installations services across London.

I’ll look forward to your positive response.

Thank you very much for your time.
Regards

David Stern