Just curious.....Photographers and Musicians please read

If you are walking past a bar and the Guinness looks like it tastes good if you walk into the bar and say give me a Guinness for free please.....You will probably get punched in the throat or laughed outta the place. OR You are at a show and ask a band for a CD and you want it free you get the riot act of how hard it is as an artist to make it ....and you have to buy the CD for the band to make it.Yet if you take pictures of a band they will want them for free. Prime example....Saw a band my wife and I both enjoyed. I was there to take photo's of another band...The Band...(will remain nameless to protect the guilty). When they were done we bought their CD. I posted the pictures of the band on my website and....you guessed it ...they wanted them for free and were perturbed I did not give them the pictures. AND we will not bother with any of their shows or buy their products any more. Simple
I gave away pictures for a long time until the pictures I took were awesome. I don't charge an arm and a leg in fact I think I am the cheapest photographer in the area....Because I enjoy taking pictures. But My camera body costs more than most bands entire compliment of instruments ha ha well at least some. When I go to a shoot at a club or bar there is about 6 thousand dollars worth of gear in my backpack. Some photographers have that tied up in just the camera body!!! Not a cheap business to get into....Let alone the cost of processing software (Photoshop, NIK, Tiffen, etc) 
When I take pictures of bands (being a musician) I know what makes bands look good. and I make bands look good.

I don't just point and shoot. I get the right angles and make musicians look like the rock stars  they ARE!!!.

So when I am charging a couple bucks for digital downloads of pictures that bands love but they want for free.... it cracks me up that they are charging for CD's.
Remember I am a musician.....So when you are selling your band remember the point and shoot picture you have as your marketing tool to show you as a band speaks volumes of your attention to detail. Pro Photo shoot of live shots with a Pro band photo says this music is gonna rawk....look at the attention to detail these guys/gals have they put effort into everything all the way down to marketing themselves.
So support your local artists....this means Bands, Street artists, glass blowers, bartenders (yes they are artists too) and of course your local photographer.
If you are a band and want shots go to https://www.facebook.com/e34photo
If you drink Guinness you may get your shots free.
RAWK!!!