Painting is a tough business. If you have the talent to spend a month on a painting and then find people will happily pay $2000 for it in a gallery, you are a fantastic artist!

But the gallery takes 50% leaving you a gross income of $12k. Then you pay for your supplies and work expenses. If that's all you do, you end up way below the poverty line.

Music, unfortunately, has a very different business model not just because of the difference in medium, but because it's copyable.

You can share a photograph of a painting, but it's, just, not the painting. A rip of a CD is nearly identical experientially.

There are many who, however, sell tapes, MiniDiscs, SD cards and other obscure formats with a small but serious following.