"Everybody's Gotta Pay Some Due"

The debate over the legitimacy of “pay-to-play” deals is not the hottest industry debate right now and it probably won’t ever be, but has been a constant issue for decades. Chances are that you’ve already made up your mind on this issue and the chances are even better that your conclusion is a one-word answer. Assuming that’s the case, there is a 100% chance that you’re wrong. It’s just not that simple. Some think it’s a matter of integrity but if you’re more attached to your integrity than you are attached to eating, you should stay as far away from the entertainment industry as possible. But many just call it a flat-out scam.

Just like any other ‘deal’ you’re offered in life, there will be good ones and there will be bad ones. From selling your soul for guitar skills at a little known intersection in the south to %90 sale on 124-packs of Mountain Dew at the grocery store. The first example is historical fiction and the second is way too much Mountain Dew. However, maybe you’ve taken a vow of celibacy and you go through three or four bottles a day. In that case, you should absolutely take advantage of Pepsi-Cola’s generosity and/or Market Basket’s initiative to salvage it from the truck it fell off of. In other words, depending on what exactly you’re paying for, a deal like this could absolutely advance you’re career. You just shouldn’t be hasty about it. If you think for a while, you could probably come up with pretty longs lists of bands you would pay to open for or a compilation roster you’d pay to be on or a magazine you’d want to be in and so forth. Now stop thinking about it because you can’t have any of those things. Someone else already has them. However, you can pay (a much smaller amount) to get some component or some scaled down version of what you want. For example; you have zero chance of opening for the Beatles, but you do have a slightly better-than-zero chance of opening for Ringo Starr, being that he’s not dead and also not one of the biggest douchebags to brim with undeserved talent in the history of the industry. Now if you can afford to pay to open for Ringo Starr than you probably already own the Internet (all of it) and don’t bother with blogs anymore.

But my point is first, that nothing is going to go ideally when you’re trying to start a music career so you have to pick your it’s not in any way out of the question that paying for exposure can help advance your career, which you agreed to this when you started imagining it about halfway up this paragraph. And second, that nothing is going to go ideally when you’re trying to start a music career so you have to pick your battles on an ethical/pride level and approach each decision strategically. Follow the link below to learn more:

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