Time.com: Want to Be a Rock Star? You'll Need $100,000.
This article is so absurd in most every regard.
First of all, let’s break some things down here:
- Promotion: Once you have music out, you need to promote it. We pay a guy to send email blasts to databases of hip music blogs. Postcards, demo CDs and other materials are also essential. Cost to date: $1,000.
That one speaks for itself. Cut out your middle man. Save $1,000 and manage your own e-mail blasts. Every hip music blog has a submission section with an e-mail contact. Add it to your contacts.
- Living in New York City. Our cousin Abby lives in Atlanta in a house — a house! — with a couple of friends. They pay a third of what we pay for our combined living spaces. New York is absurdly expensive — but the band’s future demands that we live here rather than, say, our hometown in Maine. All told, we estimate that decision costs us an extra $1000 a month. Cost to date: $18,000.
BULLSHIT. You can live wherever you want as long as you’re willing to tour most of the year and develop new markets and fanbases. Just admit that you want to live in NYC for the cred of saying you play in a NYC band first. Then move to Pittsburgh and take that $18,000 and buy a house for the same price.
But most importantly, it cost this band $109,000 to produce a debut single that sounds exactly like Coldplay. Maybe that’s your real problem, dudes. Instead of creating something genuine and real, you’re having producers leading you along every step of the way telling you what to do and that’s a costly business for everyone — particularly the fan.
Every step this band has chosen has been the least cost effective method possible as far as I can tell.
There is such a thing as a “working class musician,” and it’s a position I respect, but it’s very clear to me that these guys want to make as much as/more than doctors and lawyers and that’s just unrealistic.
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whyamiinseminary said:
postcards are essential? threw every one of them away when i worked at our college radio station. best chance for me to listen to your record was to not have douchey packaging. that’s about it.
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minusmanhattan said:
Guys these guys suck in every way possible. Also, you don’t factor in your parents buying you music lessons as a kid to “become a rockstar.”
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