“Who can afford to go to multiple shows?” says the anonymous tour manager. “Two tickets to a show, you’re talking probably about $200 with fees and everything. You go to a meal around the show, you’re talking at least $100 or $200 for a nice dinner. Then you got parking and babysitters, then you add the VIP stuff to that and you want to make it a special night, you’re talking $500 to $1,000 a night for a couple to go out. It’s capitalism at its best.”
Support local music and musicians. Go to their shows. Buy their CDs and merch. Stop giving big corporations your dollars.
This is a part of it: musicians these days make most of their money on tours. They’re not making a lot by you buying the album (although you still should to support your favorite artists).
Person creating thing doesn’t actually make most of their money from having made thing. Ridiculous.
They didn’t create it though (At least that’s the argument).
Very few artists make money through record sales, and this has always been true not just recently with Spotify.
Even in the '80s bands were starving but then people pointed to Guns and Roses as examples that made money from record sales. Record labels signed contracts with bands to record and press albums, they took 90% of the money and gave artists cash up front. Unless they were already Aerosmith, the deal wasn’t great.
People bitching about Spotify taking most of the money, whilst it might be wrong, don’t seem to know their history. If you want to support bands it has always been about seeing them live and buying merch.
Artists don’t get good deals from Spotify because their labels are signing bad deals for them and it doesn’t matter “if they made the music”.