Comment by jMyles

> musicians make most of their money nowadays from touring and selling merchandise at shows

Be reminded that this is - and has always been - the mainstream model of the lineages of what have come to be called "traditional" and "Americana" and "Appalachian" music.

The Grateful Dead implemented this model with great finesse, sometimes going out of their way to eschew intellectual property claims over their work, in the belief that such claims only hindered their success (and of course, they eventually formalized this advocacy and named it "The Electronic Frontier Foundation" - it's no coincidence that EFF sprung from deadhead culture).