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Isn't the actual music just an ad for the real product, tours and merchandise?

• tiborsaas 5y ago
  For those who don't tour or sell stuff this is peanuts. Not all musicians want to perform live, some can't even due to the nature of the music... or COVID.
  • thatswrong0 5y ago
    But this is just supply and demand in action - at any given moment there is a ton of high quality music to listen to in pretty much any style you can think of at your finger tips. Listening to a live performance, on the other hand, is far more rare than an individual stream, and that scarcity results in actual value. Same with merch. I'm saying this as a musician.. why should I feel entitled to $X per stream when there is so much good music out there to stream? Just because I put a lot of effort into some thing doesn't mean I'm entitled to a living wage from it. There are way, way too many people who do something extremely similar to feel entitled to that.
• kchr 5y ago
  Yeah, 20 years ago... That was before we got this invention called the Internet, which can be used to promote your music and let others find it instead of having to rely on tours and merch ;-)
  • kleiba 5y ago
    I'm thinking the other way around, actually: tours and merch are not there to promote the music, but the music is to promote the tour and merch.