why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

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you are literally paying for the guitar lessons his parents paid for when he was 9

And the guitar lessons he's paying for for his kid age 9.

they buy new instruments for every gig?

What you think you're paying for:
A piece of chewing gum

What you are actually paying for:
A piece of chewing gum
Harvesting of sugar
Factory equipment for mixing & molding gum, plus packaging it
Operators of equipment, plus their training
Transporting said gum across the sea and to your local store

Not to mention:
Awesome hubba-bubba cartoons on the back of comic books

Still think charging 50 cents for a pack of gum is TOO MUCH?

you wouldn't download a gig

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/602597_10151092314761968_1766501159_n.jpg

As a local promoter who regularly spends fucking hours of his spare time designing flyers, stumping up money for printing, paying money to hire venues, soundmen, security people, dealing with greedy management companies, handling primadonna no-name bandmembers, organising riders, sacrificing weeks of my time on promo blogs and bludgeoning social media bollocks, fretting over attendance figures, door prices and everything else involved in running a successful night while receiving little-to-no personal remuneration whatosever from my endeavours, this kind of thing makes me want to stab whoever wrote it in the face over and over and over again

Nothing worse than some small-time artist who believes that just because they learnt some scales and spent a bit of time in a studio it means they're owed a living. It's this kind of cunt who goes round painting promoters as soulless, money-grubbing industrymen as opposed to music fans who work in the call centre all day and stay up till 3am most nights for fear of having to cough-up out their own pockets if the night isn't a success.

that one tries to present itself as a universal cry of anger yet seems like it was made in response to one specific incident

also just saw this http://vomitinducing.tumblr.com/ which is a p good resource for this thread, albeit spoiled by the compiler's quips not being as funny as they think they are

music is its own reward, dog latin

I'm not saying people don't deserve to be paid for what they deserve, but expecting promoters to stump up large amounts of cash just because 'WAAAAH I have to pay for my own guitar strings and I don't wanna work in the call centre' is such a load of bullshit. There's this local semi-pro hiphop producer I know who regularly moans on Facebook that rappers have the audacity to ask to use his beats for free. He once called me up asking if I had any DJ gigs going, and when I said we had an hour slot after the bands finish, he said "Great, I'll do it for £100". Considering the most I can charge on the door is about a fiver before people stop showing up and average attendance is between 70-110 people, this is completely unrealistic.

I have never made any money from promoting - any profit I turn over goes straight into the next night and I've built these into the best series of gig/club nights in my local area over the course of 6 years. It's largely thankless work, save for a few good words from the local live music community but I do it because I love my scene and I want to keep it running.

So when people start calling small-time promoters out as tightwad meanies with a big Scrooge McDuck-style pool of money at home in which they swim at the end of the day chuckling to themselves about how they successfully ripped off another poor amateur band, I get very very fucked off indeed. The fact these types of macros get circulated around Facebook on a regular basis destroys our reputations, gives musicians an inflated sense of worth and ultimately kills grassroots music scenes.

It's this kind of shite that's made me have to take a step back from promoting as it's actually costing me more money to put on shows than it's making me, not to mention the time. I spent two months putting together a very successful (by local standards) Halloween show this year and came out £80 down. So seeing amateur musicians demanding a living wage for doing something that is, essentially, a hobby, well that racks me off. The truth is if you want to get to that stage you have to work for it, and you often have to work for little or nothing - and yes, it's hard hard work and it's expensive, and that's why people have day jobs.

wait, which one of you started this:

http://vomitinducing.tumblr.com/

come on, confess.

See, you ARE paying for some people to make music on stage. All the right-hand column shit is what they have to do to be able to be hired.

^

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdjehfCKQ21qiib89o1_500.jpg

not facebook but tumblr of a company that sells ties from vintage fabrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92IkddsjtAA

^^^ is pretty much how I feel about that tie ad

why did there have to be a 10 minute "best-of mama's family" clip at the end of that youtube? i have shit to do here.

Shared so many times today

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s480x480/558952_499917586695924_1123268882_n.jpg

not to get technical but according to the dictionary sometimes words have more than one meaning

*drinks rubbing alcohol, goes blind and dies*

not to get technical, but according to Ozzy, alcohol is a solution

*shreds riff for Suicide Solution on air guitar*

ok i'm done waiting for someone else to point out that alcohol is not a solution according to chemistry

you made me be that guy

sorry man

indeed

it's why we love you RS

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_697/1340754387J22fm5.jpg

lol @ attributing that quote to kurt cobain!!!!

the new bob marley

https://twitter.com/kurtquote

I've found it - I've foudn the hive: http://www.thelawofattraction.co.uk/

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/32315_524700760892234_966712816_n.jpg

That last one has some really disturbing grammar mangling.

'repost if you agree'

-- bob marley

THEY WILL KNOW YOU BY THE TRAIL OF THE DEAD

broke, being a bitch, parasitic brain slug

They will know who they are :)

A TRUE FRIEND don't care if you're white black a bitch or a fucking bum off of the streets. If you rap about shooting people, smoking blunts, wearing timbs, drinking hennessy, and whatever else, I'll buy your music. If you rap about your girl, but don't call her a bitch, fuck you. If you rap about the economy and how its hurts migrant workers, fuck you. If you rap about your rap telekenisis or some equally retarded nerd shit, fuck you. That basically how I break it down to an extent.

- Will SMith

lol

- Mitt Romney

More from vomitinducingtumblr:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdk1l79aNa1rkpy5io1_500.jpg

if i don't see it on every mother and father's wall, i'm calling the child abuse hotline!

I'm an unmarried childless 23yrold and Disney movies, family dinners, and cuddles all feature fairly prominently in my life. I do think about myself like 100% of the time.

in my experience, having kids makes you hate Disney movies, for the most part

not true! i totally enjoyed wrench-it ralph last week.

or whatever it was called.