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Originally Posted by louielouie2000
Indie artists are in the biz because they love making music, not necessarily because they want to rake in the big buck$. Folks can run around screaming "the sky is falling! The sky is falling!" But I'm loving it!  |
I agree. I think we're already looking at something like the Tusk tour, and all that high-living rock n roll, in much the same way that we look at the court of Louis XIV. A decadent and theatrical expression of an idea of how rock n roll royalty was supposed to behave. It was loosely relevant to the music, in that people would write about 'the road' etc., but really it was a lifestyle that squandered extravagantly the huge amounts of money that flowed from the fans who, as well as buying the music, may well have also bought into the spectacle.
Now, though, and in the future, the wealth is/will be more polarised. There will always be a few acts who transcend to global prominence in a way that makes them hugely wealthy. But it's a mistake to think that huge wealth as a necessary condition for sustaining an artistic career. And, in fact, most artists don't. Most artists would be happy to make from their work the same kind of income that a middle manager in a bank makes - but they can't, because people steal their work.
Loz