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   -=> August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-   
      
    AA> That's on my watchlist too. Aren't musicians becoming more   
    AA> savvy with establishing "guaranteed" returns these days?   
      
    AA> Isn't there some kind of advance payment arrangement as there   
    AA> is in book publishing?   
      
    Yes, but the amount of overhead that comes out of their cut is crazy.   
    It used to be that they only took a cut of sales, so bands made their   
    money on merchandise and tours. Now contracts are written to include a   
    cut of those, too, for the record label.   
      
    The labels are desperate. You could promote your music on YouTube,   
    Instagram and TikTok, sell digital and physical media on Soundcloud or   
    bandcamp, or if you were a big artist, create your own label.   
      
      
      
      
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