Reply to "question about file sharing"

i have received a response to my question below - they make a very good point about not being able to be signed to shows without record sales

here is the response:

Blowmax10:

I thank you for the support of our band.
As konstifik explained there are two sides.

We are very well aware that without filesharing and downloads we are not nearly as popular so thats the good part.

But as my friend explained above it also comes with a bad things and that is the business. We are depending on that promoters, festivals, labels, distributors and such.
And its very hard to try to convince a person in the US to pay for the flights of us.

Its usually like this.

ME!!! -"you know we have a lot of fans in the US, you should book us, we have tonnes of fans on youtube and myspace"

PROMOTER!!! -"Yeah right, you have sold 100 albums all over US, no chance I touch you."

So because of this we are depending on recordsales. Also if the distributors see that the album sells they promote it harder, and then the rock starts to roll



if you would like to talk to the band - check out the Sabaton forum at

www.panzerbattalion.com/