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Oh yeah baby! Gratista you soooo goood to me

but this : “Once they give up on the ad supported part of the model and just realize that recorded music is nothing more than marketing collateral for other revenue streams like live performances, we’ll have gotten somewhere.” really upset me

i earn my living partially by performing live, and partially from tech’ing live shows for other bands. artists and labels together lose a fortune from live performances. business-wise, a show has done amazingly if it so much as breaks even. making any real profit is totally unheard of. at any stage of the game, whether you’re U2 packing an arena or some teenagers packing the local punk dive, performing live costs a lot of money. going on tour and doing a string of shows, in foreign countries, one after another, is a recipe for disaster. you’d quite literally have a better chance of making money by taking what money you already have and flushing it down the toilet.

the whole point of a live performance from a business perspective is that it’s nothing more than marketing collateral for the only actual revenue streams, being selling and licensing records. there’s a reason a band always tours the new album – they’re trying to sell the damn thing.

i love how the author seems convinced that the music industry just generates money “as if by magic”, that selling records is just a massive marketing ploy, and isn’t really there to help starving musicians afford their next round of toast. no the toast just happens by magic, complete with oysters and caviar, consumed gracefully by those lazy good-for-nothing musicians, so when they get out of bed at 6pm they’re good and ready for their next money making venture on stage down the lamb and fucking lion

This is very bad news for western civilization. It’s a massive and looming tragedy of the commons that will destroy our creative industries. Oh, but you’re a tech guy in the South Bay who could really give a crap? Well guess what, software is information too. It should all be free, right? And the ads served up on your blog are information too, so maybe I can hijack them and serve my own ads on your blog, and that’d be fine, right? No? Your dear property rights you say? But it’s not property, it’s information!

I know the humanities are out of vogue, but maybe you guys have read a little about the bad old days before copyright protection?

The problem with finding alterantive ways of earning money as an artist is that everybody simply can´t be on tour all the time, (and at the same time as everybody else). Some artists arent comfortable on the stage (but are supercreative in the studio) and others make music that isn suited for live performing. I don´t want commercial success restricted to those who are able, willing and good at performing live. And selling T-shirts…

amazing amount of news today. the team has really been cranking out the articles.

can you give us some insight into the PR world, and tell us how TC and every other blog and major newspapers like the LAT all published on this? who is QTrax’s public relations firm and what do you guys all owe them?

thanks!

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