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--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 03 Jan 2008, 04:48 ---Is this really how non-DIY bands see things? That's a genuine question, my experience is largely limited to the DIY side of things, with a certain amount of observation and anecdotal evidence from people I've met who work in the industry in one way or another. I just find this way of looking at things bizarre. I make music in order to make music, I play gigs in order to play gigs, I tour in order to tour and the same goes for everyone else I've ever spoken to about it. There's no ulterior motive of building a fan base or selling t-shirts, and I'd find it a bit depressing to be watching a band for whom that was the case.

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I might have worded this poorly. I didn't mean that bands out there are just instrumental promoting robots, more so that when they play a town, they don't play a town to make money off the gig, they play the town so that word will get around about them, and a new audience is nice and refreshing to play to.

Although I've found that within the sphere of punk bands (which is the most common genre association with DIY, even though to a certain extent, most non-prolific bands have to be DIY, but lets just pretend I'm saying DIY here and you know what I'm talking about), the massive hard-on they have for touring is noticeably more erect, but most people I've talked to who have toured generally find the experience of playing to a new, fresh audience very invigorating, they just don't tour as  tirelessly as punk bands seem to do, typically.

Also it might be a lot to do with the fact that I found most "DIY" bands have a far larger emphasis on the scene and community moreso than the music specifically, but thats a whole other argument for a whole other day.

jeph:

--- Quote from: valley_parade on 03 Jan 2008, 09:00 ---GET ON IT, WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

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I didn't know you lived here! Unless you're one of my friends and I just didn't know you also posted on this board.

Thrillho:
The crux of this post really seems to be that bands make no money from touring or CD sales - so download instead!

Isn't giving a band 0.5p per CD and 0.5p per ticket a wee bit better than giving them fuck all by downloading all the time?

2HourHiatus:
I pretty much download music, listen to it, and if I like it I'll buy it. So I have a lot of catching up to do. I truly like to have the physical album in my hands and look at the art, read the liner notes. Rarely do I buy something I've never heard unless it's from an artist I know well.

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