The music business? answers plz

[Silver Incubus]

you forgot to add things like advertising, tour support, and things like videos. all of that has to be paid back before a band sees any royalty checks as well.

Yup, I just thought stuff like that seems automatically there. Pretty much anything to do with a record company you have to pay back. Which most never do. The only good thing about it is that when you make a new album, it doesn't count against the last album. So you only owe money from album to album and not all of it, which would be insane.