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[–] echo64 54 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is outdated and bad information. Most small artists lose money touring. Bigger artists might break even.

If you can buy merch, do that, if you can buy physically do that. Spotify is gonna pay pennies for thousands of streams, so nothing you do on spotify is going to benefit an artist. But "pirate and see live" is probably gonna result in a negative bank balance for artists.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nothing short of handing them cash in person is truly a guarantee. Really depressing how it's turned out.

[–] deranger 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bandcamp is a decent platform… for now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Has anything really happened since they were acquired by Epic last year?

[–] alt_xa_23 8 points 11 months ago

Epic sold it to a company called Songtradr, who shortly laid off a good chunk of the staff. They haven't done too much so far, but it could easily go south from here.

[–] thisisawayoflife 2 points 11 months ago

Faircamp might be a good avenue in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's not a guarantee either unless you know how much they spent getting in a position for you to hand them cash.

[–] essteeyou 17 points 11 months ago

I think Taylor Swift just about broke even, mostly thanks to my wife and her friends.