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Costs of being in a band.

TheoGB [Edit] [Delete] 10:12, 16 June '14

A depressing amount of money totalled up here:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152559939187754&id=7839402753

For those without FB access:

Our approximate costs per year are as follows:
Practices: £2,200
Storage: £1,440
Equipment: £1,000
Travel to London gigs: £1,650
Travel to out of London gigs: £3,300
Annual Total: £8,652*
Bear in mind it takes us about three years to write and record and album and that recording costs us about £2,000 that means a three year album cycle costs us approximately £27,956. That's just shy of £5,600 each.

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On the next tour we will be selling all four albums and a shirt for a bundle price of £25 and I'm sweating making back the £1500 we've put in to getting shirts printed and buying CDs from the labels who put them out (two of which are one-man operations who have also lost a ton of money on us in the past)!

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And it goes on with more.

It's in reference to this link http://therunout.com/post/88686417571/slacktivist-fan-entitlement-is-slowly-killing-punk

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