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:	post by RustyPS should be working at 2011-10-13 17:41:15

Lamp said

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Well, I don't really give a god damn about touring, I really don't care about getting paid to make music, and I really don't give a shit if people I've never met heard it. The main reason I like to play music is to hear something that I wrote recorded that I can listen to in my own time. My band is going to be ready to start playing shows soon (like, I have been asking people about it) and I am kind of curious about the experience, I only did it one time when I was a senior in high school, but I suspect that it won't really be worth the trouble and have a feeling I will probably get bored of it eventually.

That's all fine and good, but a lot of the bands you listen to don't feel that way. If they did feel the same way you do, you probably would never had heard them because they wouldn't be recording to release to the public either. I'm sure you listen to bands that have the goal of trying to be heard by more than just themselves, or else they would never leave the garage.

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I really have no idea how I would even go about making money off my music in the first place, honestly. Have you ever read any of the articles that get posted on this site about bands on major labels? The only people that are really living comfortably off music are the top of the pops... even people who get played on the radio are typically poor and I can make more money than them in a year working some shitty entry level job.

That's 100% true. My point was that if a band you were in was ever at that point in theory, would you quit. Not that you would play the type of music that would get to that point today anyways, but I was putting that out there.

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As far as your assertion that the ethic I'm citing is dead, I disagree, though it's not exactly popular.

Fine, it's not dead, but it's probably ready for it's last rites pretty soon.

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You and I have gone back and forth on the whole Scion thing before, and I don't feel like doing it again. I just saw that blurb and was just baffled by it.