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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
Most musicians are not "obscenely wealthy." I know and have talked with multiple indie bands and some are lucky enough to make it just big enough to be able to make a living off of music. That's just living a comfortable, middle-class lifestyle. Many indie bands don't even make it to the point where they're able to quit their "day job." But one thing that has really helped many indie artists take off this last decade is sharing music on the internet. The human desire to share new things that people like has brought more than a few indie artists into the wider public view. For this reason, I don't know any indie musicians that shun sharing music online. I'm not saying they don't exist, I just don't know any. And this is because it leads to increased awareness, which then leads to increased sales. Let's not forget, when people live as comfortably as we in developed countries do, people will pay for convenience and become more susceptible to impulsive buying.
Piracy is not going to hurt the market for literature. I'm also certain that the desire to own paper books will never go away. I think that for fiction, e-books will become more like the dime novels of old. People will purchase them if it's fluff they want to devour quickly. For books people particularly love, I'm sure there will always be a market for bound copies.
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I meant most of the artists on the radio. I know a majority of the bands out there in the world make very little money.