Total Linux Annihilation sounds like it would be a pretty exciting video game. The backstory seems very deep. Can anyone tell me where I can pick this up?
Speaking from personal experience, I don't think there's much money in making music. However, you can most definitely make money with the byproducts of making music.
My band in college made money hand over fist at shows. We offered most of our music for free on our website. We asked people to share it for free. Burn CDs for your friends, put torrents up on the IntarWebs, etc. People still bought our CDs at shows. Why? Because you got stickers with it. You got the CD with all the art. People still bought our t-shirts. These are things that are more difficult to pirate. Sure, you can make a shirt similar to ours.. but it's going to take more than grabbing a torrent file and waiting ten minutes.
If you want to make money in a band, you're lying to yourself in thinking that people will pay money for the music. Making money in a band requires treating it like any other product.
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Total Linux Annihilation sounds like it would be a pretty exciting video game. The backstory seems very deep. Can anyone tell me where I can pick this up?
Speaking from personal experience, I don't think there's much money in making music. However, you can most definitely make money with the byproducts of making music.
My band in college made money hand over fist at shows. We offered most of our music for free on our website. We asked people to share it for free. Burn CDs for your friends, put torrents up on the IntarWebs, etc. People still bought our CDs at shows. Why? Because you got stickers with it. You got the CD with all the art. People still bought our t-shirts. These are things that are more difficult to pirate. Sure, you can make a shirt similar to ours.. but it's going to take more than grabbing a torrent file and waiting ten minutes.
If you want to make money in a band, you're lying to yourself in thinking that people will pay money for the music. Making money in a band requires treating it like any other product.