Stone Temple Pilots reunion tour

Sorry but if you have to start your comment with "Remeber the Australian band ...... " then it is likely that the band has not "made it".

IMO the downloading weeds out the hacks. Most musicians make their money at concerts. Radio and now the internet are ways to premote tours and the song/message they are trying to portray.

No one is going to make a decent wage knickling and diming the album sales. Put on a good show and get the people interested is the only way you are going to make a solid living.

Sorry if that chews up some of the one hit wonders ... but what job do you get an everlasting pay day for actually doing something right?

 

Dude, Sting still makes $20,000/month on royalties from ONE SONG alone!

(Every Breath You Take)

The Church...didn't they do Under The Milky Way?

 

But downloading has no effect on that royalty money. Joe consumer is not the reason that he gets that money it is the companies that use his songs in ads, radio play, etc. That money will always be there.

Think about this. If a record hits "platinum" status it means that 1,000,000 albums have sold. Of that million sold how much do you actually think the artist gets off of each sale? I would imagine it is maybe $1.

 

The Aerosmith version is due out this year as well. The band has 30 songs or so on it. I'd expect this one to do really well and Aerosmith recognizes that it's a new way to reach a brand new (younger) audience.

 

STP rawks!

But now due to the rockness of this thread, I'm compelled to post a pic of my latest axe. Behold, the unholy Ibanez RGT6EXFX!!!!

 

This is kind of my point though. The band trying to make a name for itself and gets a contract does not rely on sales other then to show they deserve a better contract ... the band that has made it is not looking at album sales as a marker for how much money they are making. So again the downloads would have little effect on either.

Bands like Metallica who b*tch and moan about how they are not getting theres make me sick. You are wiping your arse with $100 but you are worried about losing a couple bucks to the poor college student downloading music at a discounted price? Not buying it.

As with any industry evolution has to take place. Records replaced by 8 tracks, replaced by tapes which people made tape recorders, then CDs .. along comes the CDR, now there are MP3s, only difference is the methods have gotten easier to copy or transfer files. It is absolutely absurd to think that people will not evolve to the new methods of listening and creating files.

Can any of the musicians tell me that the evolution of music to electronic files has not made there life/job easier? Nope ....

It is easy to accept change when it helps you but when it hinders you it is a little harder to swallow.