History tells us musicians have always needed cash money to survive. Scion allowed The Cars to tour and even Mozart was sponsored by Vienna Sausages.
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Musicians may not have much leverage these days, but there’s still money to be made from live shows, an experience that can't be duplicated. Unless they invent portable telephones with visual recording devices.
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First it was the monolith record labels taking huge percentages of money, now it’s the consumers taking the product for free. What's a musician to do?
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