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Originally Posted by ebusinesstutor
Musicians go on tour to promote their music, not to make money. They make more money from the sales of their music than they do from tours. And many artists do not tour, they just create studio albums.
To say this should be free is equivalent to saying no one should pay you for the work you do all day either.
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for better or worse the exact opposite is true.
U2's most recent tour netted 3/4 of a billion dollars. i'd bet my life that their music sales weren't 1/100th of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._concert_tours
thats probably more than the entire music industry made on album sales last year.