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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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6. If you want the big money, you have to tour.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Jun 1, 2016, 11:48 PM

Jun 2016

Most of the musicians I know (and you have heard of them) have made inconsequentially little from streaming and downloads. They have to tour like it's a regular job.

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