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Originally Posted by brianhj
Paying for digital music to listen to in your home is stupid. Artists should tour and sell merchandise if they want to make a living making music. It shouldn't be a "job" for them. They should do it because they love to do it not because they want to make a lot of money. Music shouldn't be an industry. It detracts from its artistic value.
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The bottom line is musicians that don't do it for the money aren't called musicians...they are called waiters who play on their breaks.
That's like saying movie actors should not get paid for movies, but only the live version of their show they perform in front of an audience.
Sorry @
brianhj but reality is different. At one point when musicians, and artists, and other creative persons had "benefactors" that worked. But even then they were paid for their skills. Now, the public as a whole is the benefactor and if you want to make a living for playing you have to do it where the money is.
Also, I have to add, the very few musicians that are able to make a living consider it a "job". They typically consider themselves very fortunate to be able to do so. It is a very small percentage of musicians that make a fortune in the business. A slightly larger percentage make a decent living playing gigs, teaching, writing. The vast majority only manage to make it a hobby that supports itself while they do something else.
I'm in the IT business and I'm surrounded by people that are musicians by training or by avocation but do IT "stuff" to pay the bills.