Selling Out

oh god no i dont want anything like pop stardom; the reason there's that stupid picture on my myspace is because i'm too embarassed to even pimp myself by having my real picture up! the whole 'selling out' thing was kind of a joke. that nashville scenario you describe sounds horrendous.

honestly, the only reason i want a modest, modest, income from music is simply so i can have the TIME to refine my music. my reasoning is if i get money from my music, i can spend more time doing that instead of working for the Man. who knows, maybe if i had the chance, i wouldn't even want to spend 8 hour days writing arranging playing and recording, but that's what i want right now. maybe i just need to find a place to squat or something, like MBV back in the day

anyways, thanks hurting, and congrats on your recent publicity

Thank you. By the way, I don't really make money from music and I have a day job.

Here's another piece of advice: Either find a day job that lets you take significant amounts of time off or develop a highly in-demand and lucrative temp worker skill. That way you can tour without having to worry about paying rent.

well, i'm a teacher, so i do get three months of paid time off; that is the light at the end of this particular tunnel this year. my other bandmate is web designer, the perfect job to also be in a band with, but the problem is a have to kick his ass to get him to turn on the keyboard when i'm not around

Yeah, teaching is one way to do it. Of course you get stuck touring at the worst times for an indie band (summer and school breaks), but it's an imperfect world.

summers off would be GREAT for me, that's when all the festivals are.

Teaching private music lessons seems like a pretty good way to support yourself for awhile if you can build up a full schedule and/or supplement it with something else on the side.

problem is that the private lesson field is so glutted now (because of all the other people trying to do the same thing) that if you play any common rock instrument (other than drums) it's nearly impossible to fill your schedule.

this situation is even worse if you have a music major centric college in your vicinity, which turns out a slew of people each year trying to justify the expenditure of music school.

So does anyone know much about submitting songs for use in commercials or tv? Is it as easy as finding a library that will accept your stuff or is there particular ones that are better?