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Re:The saddest, stupidest sentence I've ever read by bmaier on Sunday March 23, 2008 @06:23PM (#144128)
He mistakes a mistaken analogy. The poets that he names are not selling out live readings and the sculptors are not putting on live creation events.

When it comes to music, yes, a concert tour is more profitable for the artist than their recorded music is. This is the one difference between musicians and other artists.

While I don't completely agree with Arrington, I do believe that this blog post calling it the saddest stupidest sentence ever is guilty of the same sensationalism that Arrington is.

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Re:The saddest, stupidest sentence I've ever read by aston on Sunday March 23, 2008 @11:37PM (#144296)
The number of recording artists/groups making money--that is, a profit--on tour is dwarfed by the ones trying to scrape by any other way they can ('real' jobs, selling cd's and other merch at shows, bar mitzvahs, etc.). Even a lot of the top-of-the-charts artists don't draw a big enough crowd to make their tour their livelihood.
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Re:The saddest, stupidest sentence I've ever read by bmaier on Monday March 24, 2008 @09:33AM (#144537)
Ah but even so they're selling most of that merchandise at shows that people are coming to, even if the ticket sales aren't raking in the cash for them
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