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@ericjames This is very true, but also - don't just buy their music! Especially for artists who are mainly selling through streaming platforms. If they're selling merch directly, they'll likely get more of a profit from that than music sales.

(Concert tickets vary, where I am even bigger artists can struggle to break even because of travel costs, and I'm not sure where physical media sales are at because last I heard, even in the pre-streaming era those were not really making the money for artists thanks to a bunch of bullshit from labels; these days I'd think the cost of the media itself would be eating into the profits quite a lot. If their merch is being sold by a third party though, they may not be getting as much for it, but I think even with mainstream labels they still usually get more from merch than music sales. Which is pretty screwed up, but...)