The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess and former New Order member Peter Hook have spoken out about venues that take an unfair cut of merch sales, with Burgess saying “the whole system needs addressing”.On Thursday (December 9), Burgess took to Twitter to pay “big respect to those venues that don’t take a percentage of a band’s merch sales”.“This isn’t about The Charlatans,” he explained. “It’s about those bands who need merch income to survive.
Some places take 25%. A quarter of the full selling price. Vinyl doesn’t even have that mark up to begin with.”Big respect to those venues that don’t take a percentage of a band’s merch sales.
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