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Originally Posted by soundrick  Just to play the devil's advocate here:
Don't most bands make the majority of their money from touring and merch?
They probably couldn't survive on record sales from a label alone anyway.
I'll pretend I'm a mildly successful touring label artist........I get basically a sucker's pay from my label for selling units that would have me impoverished if I couldn't sell $20 t-shirts and make a much bigger profit, plus a cut of the door at any medium-sized and up venue............ |
Please, please don't keep repeating the same line about touring bands.
Downloading effects more people than young bands who want to tour constantly.
This has come up in nearly all the threads, and more people than me have pointed out the inaccuracy of claims that bands make more money on t-shirts, record companies routinely rip them off, and downloading only hurts major label bands who can tour whenever they want. etc, etc....
I mean why should Brian Eno suddenly put together a band, print some t-shirts and head out on the road for a year?
Aren't we always saying the older bands are rock dinosaurs and shouldn't be doing the Enormo-domes anymore?
You can't force anyone who's ever had a one hit wonder or put out an album to tour just to keep the wolf from the door.
There simply is much more to the music industry than bands playing live.