... studio time for singles and demos to be made and pays for them to be cut, they pay for touring and promotions in record stores and other venues, and arranges concerts with other bands with similar styles to be played. All of this, not even including a bands clothing and instrument costs, adds up to an enormous amount of money that record ... , they can test the popularity of that band of the net and determine which bands should have more money put into promotions according to public demands. (Mardesich, 1999) Streaming live concerts and offering bonus otherwise unavailable tracks by arti...

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... MTV; home tape/CD recording; and more recently, downloading music from the Internet. Simultaneously, people may read the music press, go clubbing, or see bands perform live at gigs and concerts. The popular music press, including Melody Maker and the New Musical Express (NME) in the United Kingdom and Rolling Stone in the United States, has played a major role in the ... ...

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