Torrents are a big blow. We are competing against I can get something for free in less then 2 minutes without ever leaving home or opening my wallet or pay the 99 cents per song. Even worse is avoid torrents and get properly tagged 320 mp3 for 10 cents each on some Russian mp3 site.
So entrepreneurship looks like shit now days. Posting songs on the major online outlets from what I have read is a waste of time because you still have to generate that traffic. If thats the case I can make a website and sell my own mp3 as I enjoy paypals 30 cent or 15 cents plus 5 percent fee per 99 cent transaction. Somehow I still have to get people to even visit my site to potentially buy music. Do I put my stuff up on Spotify so people don't even have to pay me at all?
All that was a bit dramatic but saying the word hussle is meaningless, literally. I go out to eat and probably 70 percent of the time whatever is playing on the radio is garbage. The whole music industry is in the toilet to point of making a living from it is non existent. Look at other music forums and see how many people are saying I just bought a car from my last release.
Doesn't mean I won't try. It can take years to build up a customer base for any business. I have bought music off of peoples personal site. Just saying I don't think the problem is people being lazy. It's the return on the time and effort is so low. It's trying to get people to even listen. It's to the point when I see someone post "check out my music" you don't ever click on them because odds are it's bad. That is what entrepreneurs are up against.
Artists are getting lazy! What happened to Entrepreneurship!
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- KVRist
- 98 posts since 6 Feb, 2017
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
if it's so difficult, why not put your effort somewhere with a payoff more significant than your length
>> redeem a cooler culture yall
"artists" suckers more like. "hey kids spend all your time hoping to be like those people we used to make you think what we want" you're gonna be the next markey markadoodle doo.
"but i like getting things exactly right in my own private electronic recording and avoiding all the big problems of how this culture is or affecting anything, it's a very convenient passtime until i'm dead, and besides, i really believe, pop songs can make me spend forty years in my bedroom talking about how my guitar is the best guitar for my economic quadrant hole" bladerunner music no that's just what they call it
>> redeem a cooler culture yall
"artists" suckers more like. "hey kids spend all your time hoping to be like those people we used to make you think what we want" you're gonna be the next markey markadoodle doo.
"but i like getting things exactly right in my own private electronic recording and avoiding all the big problems of how this culture is or affecting anything, it's a very convenient passtime until i'm dead, and besides, i really believe, pop songs can make me spend forty years in my bedroom talking about how my guitar is the best guitar for my economic quadrant hole" bladerunner music no that's just what they call it
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRAF
- 7540 posts since 7 Aug, 2003 from San Francisco Bay Area
Sometimes you make so much sense it's actually scary!xoxos wrote:if it's so difficult, why not put your effort somewhere with a payoff more significant than your length
>> redeem a cooler culture yall
"artists" suckers more like. "hey kids spend all your time hoping to be like those people we used to make you think what we want" you're gonna be the next markey markadoodle doo.
"but i like getting things exactly right in my own private electronic recording and avoiding all the big problems of how this culture is or affecting anything, it's a very convenient passtime until i'm dead, and besides, i really believe, pop songs can make me spend forty years in my bedroom talking about how my guitar is the best guitar for my economic quadrant hole" bladerunner music no that's just what they call it
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.
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- KVRAF
- 16801 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
Really, maybe you can translate? It's just coming across as a particular brand of cynicism loaded with some incorrect assumptions to me.deastman wrote:Sometimes you make so much sense it's actually scary!xoxos wrote:if it's so difficult, why not put your effort somewhere with a payoff more significant than your length
>> redeem a cooler culture yall
"artists" suckers more like. "hey kids spend all your time hoping to be like those people we used to make you think what we want" you're gonna be the next markey markadoodle doo.
"but i like getting things exactly right in my own private electronic recording and avoiding all the big problems of how this culture is or affecting anything, it's a very convenient passtime until i'm dead, and besides, i really believe, pop songs can make me spend forty years in my bedroom talking about how my guitar is the best guitar for my economic quadrant hole" bladerunner music no that's just what they call it
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- KVRAF
- 3321 posts since 2 Jul, 2007
"These are the voyages of the Entrepreneurship Enterprise. Our five-year mission is to explore strange new worlds; to sell them shoddy Earth goods; to never answer customer service e-mails; to bellow belligerently on public forums when questioned on our products' usability; and to boldly go out of business three years into our mission."
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- KVRian
- 1148 posts since 29 Jun, 2012
If you think that too few artists are good entrepreneurs, then you'll be really disappointed at how few entrepreneurs are good artists.
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
who'd notice.
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRian
- 1148 posts since 29 Jun, 2012