never heard of bandcamp, can you tell us more?

As for the post, congrats to you sir. It's incomprehensible to me that anybody can land gigs like this. As a venue/label etc, I can grab a kid off the street (or music school or whatever) and they'll perform for free, and I'm achieving 95% or so of what you could do (I presume -- maybe you're unique and Taylor-style amazing etc?). But sure, maybe there's something to be said for flexibility or small-town, actually putting in the effort and caring. Not sure.

With the avalanche of music production worldwide and the millions of people capable of making, singing, producing, playing instruments, it just seems obvious as a matter of economic fact that all that (potential) supply and interest drives the price to zero. No moat, endless competition.