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Re:How Musicians Make Money, Or Don’t, In 2018 by romwell on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:41PM (#17720226)
>How many rock bands have you heard going out to the community and passing out sample CDs?

I've got quite a few CD's like that. So I'd say - plenty.

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Re:How Musicians Make Money, Or Don’t, In 2018 by scarecrowbob on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @07:24PM (#17720501)
Same, I play a lot of original folk music and most songwriters are giving away their CDs in about a 1/3 of the transactions I've seen. The other 1/3 of sales are more like tipping for service workers, and the other 1/3 is genuine "folks want the music and they want to pay for it.
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