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Artists have never made much of sales anyway. Go to shows.

“It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on Spotify this year, So, if I’m doing the math right that means I earned $12. Enough to get myself a nice sandwich at a restaurant. So, from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support, and thanks for the sandwich.” - Weird Al

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MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
buy swag from their web presence if you are old and your ears can’t do live shows no more.

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- soundsyndicate@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Noise attenuating earbuds are a game changer, haven’t gone home with ringing ears since I started using them.
  
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  - ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Those are called earplugs.
    
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MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Go to shows.

Ticketmaster has kicked in the doors of the chat, and secured every exit with burly goons.

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- ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Fucking dirtbags. They were recently forced to lump all their fees into the ticket price so their new tactic is to tack on fake taxes when purchasing tickets. I recently bought some for a festival through a ticketmaster subsidiary (to a venue owned by ticketmaster) and they charged me $33 in taxes on the purchase. The thing is, I live in Oregon where we don’t have any sales tax. I wrote both them and the promoter asking about it and they gave me some bullshit excuse about them being “state and local taxes” (venue is in rural Washington) even though that’s not how it works when it comes to purchases nor are there any local taxes in that area. The rate they charged me doesn’t even match the WA sales tax rate.
  
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- Trollception@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is still making them a significant amount of money regardless of Ticketmaster.
  
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sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No they don’t. I don’t have a problem with let me listen to this to see if I should buy it. That’s totally understandable. People who just do it to get everything free is what I have a problem with. If you really like the work find a way to support them because those numbers open doors to bigger opportunities.

Totally agree on the show’s and I’ve seen some big name artists at small shows randomly. Also some really good merchandise.

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