Over the years I've discovered many great peformers through second hand albums. It means that I've gone on to purchase new albums & concert tickets which have hepled (modestly) to swell the performers' coffers.

For example, sometime in the late eighties I bought Jez Lowe's Bad Penny l.p. second-hand. I've since bought all his others, either from mainstream record shops or straight from him and also been to many of his live shows.

Getting your music heard is surely the important thing. If enough people get to hear it, business opportunties will follow.