[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1340188969' post='1700567']
But to sustain a career in music is not then easily possible is it. To make the best music you can make and really represent yourself at your best, you need to dedicate a lot of time to it, practising, writing, refining, learning, touring, promotion .. giving yourself the best chance at a sustainable career. You can't do all this and have a day job to pay the rent and eat and fund the next musical project.
[/quote]
That's exactly what I do, I work a day job to pay for my hobby making music. If I could make a living out of selling music, I'd probably be happy about that, but this is the 21st century and I think it's unrealistic to think that people wont share music digitally in the same way people did with cassette tapes, or further back, did around camp fires. To me music is a form of human expression first and foremost, not a commodity, it's ethereal. Once it leaves the speakers it enters your brain and it's yours forever.
Honestly, I would rather someone heard my music for free and enjoyed it, instead of not hearing it at all because they're not able to/prepared to pay for it.
But that's just me.