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Re:Streaming Music is Ripping You Off; Fight back with this ... by rawTruthHurts on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @11:12AM (#10152864)
"I always thought it was (roughly) general knowledge that artists make their money from going on tour"

It's roughly not because that's not how it used to be. Money from tours is something that started to become the trend since (I'd say) mid eighties.

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Re:Streaming Music is Ripping You Off; Fight back with this ... by DanBC on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @11:16AM (#10152902)
...and the vast majority of bands (especially small bands) lose money on live performance.

That leaves merch as the only way to make money. I prefer to listen to music by people who want to make music, not people who are good at selling t-shirts.

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