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Bands must pay all their debts first. to record labels, producers, merch costs, tour managers and every other person who has their hands in it first. A band could spend years making next to nothing while paying off all these people.
Luckily with the advances in home recording, web promotion like myspace and other services that allow you to post music and freely distribute your songs at your own will you can build a fan base and keep your costs down, avoiding paying everyone with their hands fishing around in a record label looking for a chunk of change.
This will in turn, bring people out to your tour and depending on your fan base you will make money on merch sales and gaurentee for the night. Teens buy more than twenty somethings.
Then you put the money back into gas, van repair, food, and more merch and promotion.
Moral of the story do music for the love of it. and if it pays off you will be nothing but grateful for your trials and tribulations.