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Posted 3 weeks ago
Band claims it costs $100,000 to make it in indie rock, finally rendering the term “indie rock” meaningless

In fact, it costs more than $100,000 to try to “make it” today, including $30,000 for “training,” $25,000 for gear, $1,000 to “pay a guy to send email blasts to databases of hip music blogs,”and $18,000 to live in New York City, because shaggy-haired rock guys are required by federal law to live in New York City. Man, were the Ramones actually Rockefellers or something?

We’re going to tread lightly here, because the level of delusion in this story could potentially suck us all into a bottomless vortex of self-entitlement from which no amount of whining to wealthy parents will ever free us.

Yeah. Sometimes you read something that’s so wrong you want to yell everything that is wrong about it all at once, so nothing has enough time to become a fully-formed sentence. This is one of those times.
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  I think it’s worth noting that the band has tacitly acknowledged that you don’t necessarily have to approach indie rock...
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  It’s not easy being a rich poser.
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