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a pack of wolves:
Depends what kind of label they're on. With a large amount of the music I listen to if they lost 10% of album sales that would mean the label or band being seriously out of pocket, since they're only really looking at breaking even at best. Having said that, I do download a fair amount of stuff simply because I can't afford to buy any more records than I do already so I wouldn't be buying the record if I didn't download it, and therefore they aren't losing any money from me getting it for free.
captainawesome:
It depends on the label, yes, but I'm fairly sure that a band gets more of the $12-20 you pay for a ticket than of the $15 from a CD. With the CDs, the label, the producer, and the studio all get their cut of the CD money before the artist gets theirs.
I download most of my music, and save my money to see the bands live and buy merch.
Kai:
I do this as well, save for quite a few cds that I just felt the need to purchase. Although it sucks because most of the bands lately have been coming here always when I can't see them. :/
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: captainawesome ---It depends on the label, yes, but I'm fairly sure that a band gets more of the $12-20 you pay for a ticket than of the $15 from a CD. With the CDs, the label, the producer, and the studio all get their cut of the CD money before the artist gets theirs.
I download most of my music, and save my money to see the bands live and buy merch.
--- End quote ---
No, it still depends. For a start, I almost never go to see a gig that would cost $12-20 (I think that's about £7-13 or something?) they're usually £3-5 (about $5-9 I think), and with gigs usually the promoter has to cover cost of PA/room hire/flyers etc first so frequently bands lose money playing them. But for the Mock Heroic 7" I bought last week 100% went to the band since it was self-released, and the same with the Narcosis/Melt-Banana split I have since it was one that Narcosis were selling themselves.
muffy:
I've seen so many bands where the promoter hasn't been able to pay them -
the weirdest one was The Killers last year - the gig was sold out, and yet they still made a loss.
Also, another random fact - the record company takes 12.5% of the sale price for packaging. However, if people buy the album online, obviously with no packaging costs, the record company still takes that 12.5%.
Also, bands get something like £2 from every album sold, sometimes less.
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