Owned a small record label with two bands made it "huge." They made $7,000 a year on average while touring the world and selling a ton of merch and records. No

Owned a small record label with two bands made it "huge." They made $7,000 a year on average while touring the world and selling a ton of merch and records. Not sustainable for two reasons 1) Sadly this is only available to a small percentage of your fans. I still think it would be best to have a Donation/Patreon 2) Touring is EXPENSIVE! It is grueling and is the second biggest reason why bands break up. First reason for breakups is recording sessions and man some people are pig headed and others are lazy and it just goes boom. Just get a donation system going. Think online busker. One of my favorite bands "Waterdeep" is a husband/wife band they basically travel around to do in people's living rooms concerts and they rest is paid for by donations. They both do a bunch of different things to get paid including recording engineer. https://www.waterdeep.com/about/ https://www.waterdeep.com/about/