Steven Wilson begging in Facebook

Roger Waters tour is filling 30,000 seat arenas - SWilson is playing 800 seat venues.

 

 

Do the maths.

Eh? Do you understand how business works at all? Profit (ie richness) is what is left after you have paid all the expenses, not before. What SWislon earns from touring and selling albums pays for the band and funds the next album, what is left is his personal wealth. If we are really generous and assume that SWIlson Inc. grosses £500,000 per year (because at the moment he is releasing 1 album a year and touring that album to promote it) then that gross operating income funds everything to do with the production of those albums and tours, incuding all transport, salaries (including backstage personel) and all recording and production costs, whatever is left after that (if any) is his personal wealth.

 

A business that turns over £½million/year is, by definition, a small business - profit on that is considered to be good if it manages 10%, few small businesses manage that level of profitability - a personal income of £50K per year is not classed as "rich".

^ I feel no difference. Still, it's my logic, it's a part of me ... or at least it was slightly duller before.

Dean wrote: Dayvenkirq wrote: ^ And I didn't know anything about it. But how is it that SW manages to afford the recording of his albums, paying his colleagues, etc. Eh? Do you understand how business works at all? Profit (ie richness) is what is left after you have paid all the expenses, not before. What SWislon earns from touring and selling albums pays for the band and funds the next album, what is left is his personal wealth. If we are really generous and assume that SWIlson Inc. grosses £500,000 per year (because at the moment he is releasing 1 album a year and touring that album to promote it) then that gross operating income funds everything to do with the production of those albums and tours, incuding all transport, salaries (including backstage personel) and all recording and production costs, whatever is left after that (if any) is his personal wealth. A business that turns over £½million/year is, by definition, a small business - ...

That I knew.

Dean wrote: ... - profit on that is considered to be good if it manages 10%, few small businesses manage that level of profitability - a personal income of £50K per year is not classed as "rich".

That I didn't.

"Henry and his pink mayday space travel disasters" 

looking trough the surreal picturebook and reading the full story of who was on bass at the last 4 beats of the third track.

Those day was great, but i think they are gone forever, filesharing or not.

There is also the magnitude of each sharing method to consider - trading tapes between friends is a 1:1 relationship - pirated tapes is a 1:many relationship - neither of those had a significant impact. No one knows the raltionship of illegal downloading (because no one can count the actual number of downloads) but since the method of production is infinite and the ease with which anyone can do it means a greater number of people can do it then the potential relationship approaches the infinite. When artists can observe CD sales decline the instant an album is leaked we can assume it is significant, and there are many other observable effects we can detect that indicate that illegal downloading has a greater impact and is far more significant than any other pirating method.