One of my best friends is an actor (he's been if a few movies, anyone remember Passiondale(sp?)?). He's starting out, and he's not even a mention in the credits, but everyone has to start somewhere. He's working hard and making shit all. Another friend of mine is in a small bad that has done some touring with other smaller bands, all thier cd's is where they make thier money from, and they're starving basically. I have been playing around on Limewire at a friends place, and typed this bands name in, and I basically pulled the entire cd off it. I know these guys, and I know how they live, CD sales are basically whats keeping them going from paycheck to paycheck. I have well over 150 CD's and none of them are burned, and none of them are copied, the only music I have on my computer are prerelease demo's that they send me, and whatever I have recorded onto my computer from CD. A lot of my music is from small bands that no one have ever heard of. Bands that I really like, and if people just download thier music then the band's can survive and they go under. Does anyone remember Sublime? In thier first year in the mainstream, they only took home about $20 000 each after all was said and done, after recording costs, renting costs, travel costs. (I dont' like them) but they put a lot of hard work into thier music and they basically got paid the same as if they were flipping burgers at burger king. Not everyone who is famous is rich, just because a musician is big, doesn't mean they bring in the big money.
When my friend was in the movie passiondale, they made him pay is training, after he got paid and everything after about 6 weeks on the set, he made about $100 after everything. Thats six weeks of unemployment for $100, in hopes that it gets his name out there and he can work up to bigger and better. In the future, downloading movies may kill his career because of budget cuts because of lost profits to the main company.
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