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And if you're an artist should you be creating your art to express yourself or to make money off of it? Making money from the art you put it can be a nice bonus, but you shouldn't NEED that money to feel satisfied with what you're doing.
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That's absurd. People want to make careers out of music. Making a demo CD for a few friends and making a CD to hopefully sell a million albums are not even remotely similar.
You say art should be free, and in the same breath you talk about DAW's and protools rigs. How about the actual production? The mastering? Printing the albums themselves, not to mention distribution? If you're going to give away your album at shows, you need to actually have the album. And (hey!) that costs money.
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Even if you don't wanna take a month or so to familiarize yourself with recording there are tons of people with home/pro studios that charge insanely cheap rates now (as low as $20/hour I've seen for people with loads of outboard gear even).
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And how many hours does it take to release a 10 song album? Have you ever been in a studio with a full band? Even at $20 an hour (which is a supremely low figure) you're still looking at thousands of dollars out of pocket for a full album JUST FOR THE RECORDING.
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People have been making demos on their own money to get shows since at least the early 80s, that's nothing different.
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Playing clubs and playing arena dates and actually touring are two very different things. If you're taking 6 months to tour the world with your band, you need to ship gear, hire techs, pay for planes and hotels, the list goes on. If you're not flying, you need a bus, or at the very least a van, and if you're playing an arena I'm sorry but your nice Recto stack isn't exactly "all you need". All that stuff is expensive dude. You're looking at it from the garage band perspective. People with careers in music (those are who we're talking about here, who are affected by pirating music) NEED to make a living to pay for their mortgates, kids college funds, etc WHILE they're on tour. Your free art isn't going to get you a plane ticket to New York to play Madison Square Garden with all of your gear in tow.
If you think that you can just toss your PodXT into freeware software and make a product that will hit the shelves in Tower Records, you're either out of your mind, or you're Bulb.
