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1) Accept that selling your music is a thing of the past. You are not going to make any significant money on the sales of albums or on plays on the streaming services.

2) Engage your fan base via your web site and various social media platforms

3) Sell merchandise. T-Shirts, posters, key chains, stickers, figurines, whatever.

4) Tour. Tour. Tour. This is where your money will be made.

1) Then you as a consumer must accept that you will be unable to buy it once the artists stop recording it.

2) Gee, no band does that now. They've never ever thought of that. Social media! What a great idea! People rake in big bucks giving away stuff on facebook!

3) Yes, instead of selling the thing you actually produce (music, writing, etc.), you should bring in a third party to sell merchandise for people who like the thing you actually produce. This is perhaps the dumbest business plan ever conceived.

4) While I agree music is meant to be experienced live, it also is hard to make a living just touring. You want artists to give up their revenue stream for recording and writing music, and think that a boost touring revenue will replace that? How? Isn't it better to diversify and have multiple revenue streams?

Your argument is one that artists should give away their most valuable commodity -- the permanent hi-fidelity recordings of their work -- away for nothing and hope they make it up in merchandising? That's insane.

If we're not willing to pay for recorded music, artists should stop making recordings. Consumers want something for nothing.

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Posted by WikiTiger

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Posted on 11/27/12 at 1:35 pm to Baloo

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1) Then you as a consumer must accept that you will be unable to buy it once the artists stop recording it.

2) Gee, no band does that now. They've never ever thought of that. Social media! What a great idea! People rake in big bucks giving away stuff on facebook!

3) Yes, instead of selling the thing you actually produce (music, writing, etc.), you should bring in a third party to sell merchandise for people who like the thing you actually produce. This is perhaps the dumbest business plan ever conceived.

4) While I agree music is meant to be experienced live, it also is hard to make a living just touring. You want artists to give up their revenue stream for recording and writing music, and think that a boost touring revenue will replace that? How? Isn't it better to diversify and have multiple revenue streams?

Your argument is one that artists should give away their most valuable commodity -- the permanent hi-fidelity recordings of their work -- away for nothing and hope they make it up in merchandising? That's insane.

Congrats Baloo, you're a dinosaur.

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If we're not willing to pay for recorded music, artists should stop making recordings. Consumers want something for nothing.

And yet, I have literally ZERO fear that people will stop creating and recording new music.

Paradigm shifts don't frighten me like they frighten you. But I'm also not a dinosaur.

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