- A competent government would see Ticketmaster and LiveNation as the effective trust/monopoly that they are, and break them up into multiple smaller, competing companies.
- To his credit, Biden passed executive action to ban bullshit "junk fees" that get tacked on to ticket prices (among other things). I'm honestly not sure what became of that rule once Trump got into power, but it is absolutely a rule that we need.
- We need like 50x more scrutiny on corporate mergers and collusion of corporate entities to jack up prices.
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It's a symbiotic relationship. Ticketmaster takes the heat for adding cost, the venues get some kickback and don't have to have an expense on their books. Everyone is complicit.
Small venues maybe, but Ticketmaster owns all the larger ones.
Oh sure, that, too. That was their phase two, buying up venues.
Consumers could fix it by boycotting them until they cease to exist, meanwhile buy merch from the artists you like.
But this requires people to temporarily sacrifice their desires and experience some FOMO, so it's unlikely to ever happen.
Very true. Too bad there's no other way.
Especially for kids who really like any older music, those bands will not be around long (many bands on the sick new world fest for an example are 35+ years old). So yeah I guess whole generations just have to miss out on that music they love.
There are laws and they’re probably in violation of them, but if you expect Trump’s DOJ to go after monopolies, you’ll die waiting.
I’m also pissed at the venues and artists deciding to use Ticketmaster.
Capita… gosh darn it
It wasn't always like this?
For the same reason as every other service...
MONEY
This isn't a problem that's unique to "capitalism". It's a monopoly problem. Even in other economy types this problem would exist. For example, with communism almost everything would be a monopoly.
A free market is supposed to provide us multiple options to take our business, but we need regulation to keep capitalism in check.
We do have laws against monopolies, and there is already a case against Live Nation/Ticketmaster:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Live_Nation_Entertainment
The way to really fix this is through our legal system and representatives. We need to pressure our representatives to pass better laws to prevent this from happening again as well as electing officials who actual care about issues like this.
I SOOO want to see Rush's tour next summer. Not seeing them for past tours is something I really regret.
Signed up for the pre-sale, signed on the day of AND... FUCK THAT.
I'm not spending the equivalent of my mortgage just to get decent seats. So I fired up the R40 tour video and cranked it up. I'll just be happy with that.
The wheels are in motion, but they are slow, indeed. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-live-nation-ticketmaster-monopolizing-markets-across-live-concert
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I guess a better question is why do people keep giving them money so they can keep being this way?
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Were you buying Rush tickets? lol