Have you been noticing all your favorite musicians from the 1990s and 2000s are now working normal jobs?

[The NaTurryl Man]

There’s no money in music, the guy from avenged sevenfold broke down the economics recently - even in a band that size they don’t make anything touring anymore.

In fact musicians never made money, it’s only really a small period of history where they did, the 60s to the 90s basically. Even renowned composers didn’t make much.

And that's a good thing.

 

[nasty twp]

In fact musicians never made money, it’s only really a small period of history where they did, the 60s to the 90s basically. Even renowned composers didn’t make

Renowned court composers would make a mint, as would the operatic greats or Broadway or Bollywood superstars, but they number few, and were about the only ones to strike gold before or after the mid-late 20th Century. And they had the illegitimate theatre and elite millionaire patrons & listeners backing them up.

There’s no money in music, the guy from avenged sevenfold broke down the economics recently - even in a band that size they don’t make anything touring anymore.

The only people getting wealthy from music now are guys who made music which goes viral on TikTok and they aren’t signed to any Jewish thieves and get all the streaming revenue.

Charlie Simpson off of 2000s pop-rock Brit band Busted spoke about the death of a living wage in the music business recently, when he went on some wank podcast. I believe him, though I'd believe anything from in his gravel-and-honey posh Toff voice, whatever you say gorgeous.

Speaking of, the Busted song 'Who's David' always puts me in mind of a Reddit incel. Just the pop-punk radio-friendly version of a bitter woman-hating manifesto, dressed up as a cute bitchy little aside. Or O&A about each other. And the song came out in 2004-5, so they were ahead of their time.

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

Renowned court composers would make a mint

All musicians belong in court.

 

[TheGhostOfBernellTrammell]

I’m not going to say the band, I think they were B-tier at their highest. But I went to high school with most of them and after I think 15 years or so they finally had to end the band. I know two of the members have really high paying “normal” jobs. They moved back to the Michigan area which I don’t really get .

The Beatles?

 

[UnPRePared]

@UnPRePared as a superstar rockstar , what’s the money like?

I can only tell you my experiences as a non-American who never had a breakthrough in your country, but here it goes:

I was very close to going the way of the examples @Sgt Zogbot Delta Operator gave above when Genesis stopped making new music (I've told this story many times before) and ended our version of the band. I had to fight through depression and major monetary loss for a couple years, but thanks to some good friends (love you always, Pauline) and discovering my music had a good following in certain parts of Europe, I was faced with a choice: continue making music for the love of it and just live wisely, or own up that I was only in it for fortune and fame and find another road to travel.

I couldn't give up what I've been doing since I was a wee lad, so, I've saved up and invested over the years, and I live a cozy but not opulent lifestyle. I make sure my bandmates are compensated fairly - I'd never hear the end of it from my brother if I didn't - and we book venues and areas that we're in demand and can fill.

No crazy record contracts, no insane mansions or Bentley's, no bacon egg and cheese on a roll every morning, but I do well. Not "Cribs" worthy, but a healthy living. I'll never make, let alone spend, what someone like Sinatra or Prince did, but I get to do what I love for a career and I can never complain about that.

Taylor's still gorgeous. He still has that instinctive hair-flip that looks very hmmmmm-bop. He defo pings as my gay brethren say.

Hanson are doing rather well these days, at least making a living off of nostalgia touring. They send their love.

They're all Mormons with about three dozen children between them, though, so heaven knows how they pay for them all. Probably work them to death on the farm, or sell their labour some other way.

Hanson does extremely well as a nostalgia act. They have a following like The Dead and Phish do, just a little classier.

All musicians belong in court.

I keep my nose clean, brother-san.

And @Nigger John, was it Spacehog?

 

[Professor Rape]

I can only tell you my experiences as a non-American who never had a breakthrough in your country, but here it goes:

I was very close to going the way of the examples @Sgt Zogbot Delta Operator gave above when Genesis stopped making new music (I've told this story many times before) and ended our version of the band. I had to fight through depression and major monetary loss for a couple years, but thanks to some good friends (love you always, Pauline) and discovering my music had a good following in certain parts of Europe, I was faced with a choice: continue making music for the love of it and just live wisely, or own up that I was only in it for fortune and fame and find another road to travel.

I couldn't give up what I've been doing since I was a wee lad, so, I've saved up and invested over the years, and I live a cozy but not opulent lifestyle. I make sure my bandmates are compensated fairly - I'd never hear the end of it from my brother if I didn't - and we book venues and areas that we're in demand and can fill.

No crazy record contracts, no insane mansions or Bentley's, no bacon egg and cheese on a roll every morning, but I do well. Not "Cribs" worthy, but a healthy living. I'll never make, let alone spend, what someone like Sinatra or Prince did, but I get to do what I love for a career and I can never complain about that.



Hanson does extremely well as a nostalgia act. They have a following like The Dead and Phish do, just a little classier.



I keep my nose clean, brother-san.

And @Nigger John, was it Spacehog?

Ray Wilson, everyone!

 

[Fuck]

Scott Raynor was the first drummer for Blink 182, he got kicked out for drinking too much, now he's a cop.

 

[Peckas]

What’s Kurt Cobain up to these days?

 

[Child..]

When DMX died broke this guy I fuck with (Mag Bitter Truth) made a breakdown that I'll to the grave on how all entertainers/actors are broke and own squat...literal slaves, and that entertainers never rose to be this "astroturfed" status called celebrity, that they were still bottom tier of society just like during the Roman era.

He even proved how the Kardashians, JayZ etc dont have what they claim to have, that it's all sorcery and hype.

 

[Last Word Nelsonn]

When DMX died broke this guy I fuck with (Mag Bitter Truth) made a breakdown that I'll to the grave on how all entertainers/actors are broke and own squat...literal slaves, and that entertainers never rose to be this "astroturfed" status called celebrity, that they were still bottom tier of society just like during the Roman era.

He even proved how the Kardashians, JayZ etc dont have what they claim to have, that it's all sorcery and hype.

Who are you taking to?

 

[Toast]

I listen to metal, so I'm pretty sure I'm doing better financially than many of the bands I've seen. I do my part and buy a shirt or two. XXXL of course.

 

[whyarewedoingthisagain_mybb]

I've been noticing that a lot lately. One really talented drummer of a super popular band from the early 2000s working as a realtor in Florida. Another dude from a similarly popular band working at a shitty car dealership in the middle of nowhere. The singer of The Matches (first album was good, others sucked) living in a van in the desert capturing lizards to eat.

A guy named Gavin Hayes was a great singer of this incredible band called Dredg now an account manager at Adobe.

It's just so sad seeing these people with LinkedIns. I guess it's inevitable though seeing as they were only making probably $40-$50K a year at their peak.

You seen this? Have you heard about this?

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They are working as used car salesman because you named bands nobody has ever heard of.