Mordgeld wrote:Conservatives buy music too. I try to bear in mind that I could half my potential audience with one snide remark on social media. Of course, some musicians have decided that they have too many fans. Pearl Jam comes to mind.
No one's buying music these days. Except 'superfans'. And musicians. Sad but true. If it wasn't, 'old timers' (like Stills, Rundgren, Ian Anderson, etc etc) wouldn't be touring to make real dollars, rather than releasing new music.
Those people who walked out - you think they would have stopped at the merch table to buy the new Stills-Collins CD (or a t-shirt) if both performers had just played their music and kept their mouths shut? Nope.
I went to an open mic last week with a 'feature' artist, she played solo acoustic, but she plays rock-blues with a band normally. Has 5 albums available. She brought a handful of CDs to sell, knowing she wasn't going to sell many. I bought 2, I saw the guy running the place buy 1. No one else - but plenty of people threw $$ in the hat when it was passed around to pay her. That's the state of music sales these days.