indeed. i am also equally sick of hearing this complaint. tho, it's for a different reason.
music is not a freakin' product, people. it's a service. musicians are PERFORMERS. outside of the last 60 years or so, there was no such thing as "selling music" where you're not talking about sheet music. musicians get paid for performing.
the last 60 years has been a music bubble. welcome to the correction.
It's kinda hard to get a regular performance gig when a venue owner can simply throw on a CD or pay a few $ to a DJ. Jukeboxes massively undermined the market for jobbing musicians.
so, what you're telling me is your [i mean the royal 'you', not necessarily you you, anigbrowl] performance isn't as good as cd playback? people would rather listen to your cd than listen to you?
makes me think you should either 1) change careers or 2) get better.
see? the technology gets dumped on as a scapegoat. we all hear this. this case is no different.
the real issue? competition has moved back to the streets instead of in the promoter's office. you're still fighting to get heard. and you still have to be good. and you still have to be lucky. because these days, every tom, dick and harry can become "a musician" by putting out a cd. it's the same fight every creative industry is fighting right now. it's just that professional photographers don't really have a pandora to shake their fist at.
just be glad it's not the 16th century and the only way to earn money as a musician was to get commissions from nobility. the phrase "starving artist" exists for a reason.
music is not a freakin' product, people. it's a service. musicians are PERFORMERS. outside of the last 60 years or so, there was no such thing as "selling music" where you're not talking about sheet music. musicians get paid for performing.
the last 60 years has been a music bubble. welcome to the correction.
m3mnoch.