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Do you buy music?
jeph:
I only buy albums occasionally anymore.
For one thing, probably 90% of what I am listening to is European electronic music that is impossible to find in stores near me. I'd use Beatport, but their downloader app refuses to work on any of my computers. So I'm left with Amazon (iffy, kind of a pain in the ass, I don't like having to wait for mail) or BitTorrent (has almost everything, instantly).
Also, if I like a band I yell about them on my website, which has a pretty large audience. So they get free promotion to a couple hundred thousand people in exchange for me downloading their music. Obviously the doesn't benefit bands whose stuff I download and don't enjoy, or don't get excited enough about to mention on my site, but considering that I've made a business out of this very system I don't feel particularly guilty.
Don't most bands make more money off touring and merchandise sales anyway? I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: jeph on 30 Dec 2007, 19:09 ---Don't most bands make more money off touring and merchandise sales anyway? I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
--- End quote ---
"Most" bands barely make enough money from a show to make it to the next show.
A band like Radiohead probably makes more money off touring than albums, yes. But "most" bands - 99% at minimum - don't do large tours in expensive venues that sell to capacity.
Ryder:
Tours are for publicity when you're not a superstar. If you're the leader of the band, you want followers when you do it, since making money is almost impossible.
Maybe ten years ago it was better, but now it's all BitTorrent and iTunes. You don't buy cds at the shows, or even hear about them there. It's all word of mouth.
Plus, you've seriously got to consider how loyal fans can really support music.
a pack of wolves:
What on earth are you talking about? Tours are to play in new places, meet new people and generally have a great time, they are an end in and of themselves. Leader of the band? Followers when you do what? And I can't remember the last time I saw a band who weren't local that didn't have some kind of record for sale at their gigs.
Jackie Blue:
But the fact remains that "most" bands - and in fact, the overwhelming majority - don't make much more than enough from a tour to "break even", especially when you consider that you have to take time off from your "day job" in order to tour in the first place.
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