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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by tptacek on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @07:25PM (#4139704)
Unless the band you create is called Sparklehorse, and you're considered an indie-musician's indie-musician, and you collaborate with PJ Harvey and Tom Waits and Danger Mouse and James Mercer, and tour with Radiohead, and end up destitute living out of your old recording studio too in hock to hospitals to pay for mental health care and then shoot yourself in the chest.

On the plus side: now you're extra famous.

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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by leot on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @07:58PM (#4139809)
Isn't this more an indictment of the U.S. social safety net than it is of the economics of music performance?

And, am I to conclude from your statement that, in fact, all artists who are as good as Sparklehorse are entitled to sufficiently remunerative compensation, in addition to their fame and prestige?

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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by tptacek on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @08:05PM (#4139834)
A. Yes

B. No

I'm just responding to the "fame can be its own reward" sentiment I detected.

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