MattBlumTheNuProject

I totally agree. But at the same time if people couldn't have the music unless they paid for it, they would probably choose to spend a little more of their money on it. Now they don't have to, so the job of being a full time musician has changed. I guess you could say that's not necessarily bad, but it seems to me like a harder life than it used to be.

It's why we always buy the vinyl if we like the band.

Hope you're well, too :)

I thought it was a good example of the changing role of the somewhat-well-known musician. But if no one you know has heard of him well then shit.

You commented on piracy not being the problem. I recently saw David Bazan do one of his living room concerts and he had a much different take. He said that he used to tour 3 months a year and that 60-75% of his revenue came from album sales and now he has to tour 6-8 months a year and albums sales make up only 5% of his gross. Unless his music took a dive, which I'm mostly positive it did not, it seemed to me like piracy, Pandora, Spotify, etc... has made it so that musicians have to tour all the time in order to get paid. In his case, this means leaving his family to do so.

Thoughts?