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With free download nowadays, make musicians 'harder' to make a full time living?

  • you know those people who still say “well,.even with free downloads & everything, i don’t care, I’m sure those artists/musicians can find another WAY to make-a-living” and some even said that musicians/artists nowadays can and ONLY can, and should make a living NOT from CD-album sales (which generally has decreased significantly, with free downloads everywhere!), but from live gigs, merchandise, etc. but IMO there can't be no denying that nowadays, the 'biggest' source of income for artists/musicians (which is from CD sales), especially for NEW artists/musicians, are getting 'stolen' , and almost gone, because of free downloads everywhere,..regardless of whether they make money/income from live gigs, concerts, etc,.right? so my question then becomes this: is it generally now much ‘harder’ for musicians to be able to make-a-living, and i mean, as a FULL-time (not part-time) serious, professional musician? there’re even other comments such as: “well,..music is supposed to be FREE! so those musicians/artists??...well, of course they NEED to find other works too, even if it’s 9-to-5 jobs!” the ‘problem’ i see with this is, of how it seems the profession/career of ‘Musician’ is getting somewhat ‘downgraded’ , or ‘less respected’ these days?? because it seems like these people, in a way, saying “musician is, and CAN only be a PART-time ‘non-serious’ job. so they all need to find other more ‘serious’ job!” ,.........as if being musician, ie: thinking, composing, writing songs, lyrics arranging, practicing session, recording, mixing & mastering & promo is all still NOT a “hard-serious” works?.. what do you guys think regarding this issue? would love to know your opinions!

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    Let me first start by correcting your terminology.. For the most part, there are no "Free" downloads, mostly just "Illegal" downloads. I used to be a big part of it, Limewire, old school Napster, newsgroups, you name it, I was bootlegging it. I had around 90,000 MP3's. As I got older and more mature, I really started to realize that I was stealing. It's not about how much these artist make, or how much money they already have, or how much they deserve.It is about right and wrong. If you like the artist, the right thing to do is to pay for their work. $.99 is pretty darn reasonable for a song. You wouldn't ask somebody to wash your car and then refuse to pay because he has already made a good living washing cars. Why steal the music and refuse to pay. The people who are doing this need to grow up, and start participating in society.

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That's too long. I only read part of it. Signed artists don't make much off of their album sales. Most of that money goes to the label that signed them. They've always made most of their money through other means. Yes, downloading music has hurt the industry... but you can't stop it. We have to adapt as a civilization. CDs will be gone shortly. The iPod has made it obsolete, just like CDs have made casettes obsolete, etc, etc. I don't think it's harder for a musician to make a living full time. If this was so, then you would see a lot less music, but you don't.

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