I have hated Ticketmaster for decades.
They’ve earned it.
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Probably the best way to do it.
Even this will not convert the 300 plus who crowded the Portland Maine City Council Chambers to rail against a LiveNation proposal to build a new theater in downtown Poetland Maine. Several of them tried to tie Trump and Republicans to LiveNation.
TicketBastard (tm)
Only Grateful Dead was able to defeat TM.
Or use my cure - don’t buy tickets from them. Concerts are almost as bad as movie theaters.
they must have pulled some real gangster moves to dominate concert ticket sales everywhere so much
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I’m glad most of my concert and sports event going days are over.
Ultimately, the fans don’t mind to pay the inflated price to see their cult-heroes.
Concerts, etc. seem to always sell out and prove it with swollen attendance.
Change the money flow?
Right, like...what?...taxing cigarettes?
Worked, right?
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I would have thought simple antitrust enforcement could handle this. Too concentrated a market, with venues losing some of the margin that the secondary market took.
As to the ticket purchasers, so what if you have to wait in line to “buy wholesale” and the online scalpers who are eager to serve are more expensive? Will the final price really be cheaper concert venues are able to capture much of the revenue that scalpers get now?
The simple way to beat them is to recognize there hasn’t been any good music since the late 1980’s. Maybe one or two songs a year since then are worth listening to more than once. Since there is no good music, no need to waste money going to see people who make noise, not music. Other entertainment types will find a way to survive and maybe we can be rid of crap music one day. IMHO
Ticketmaster and parking chargers are killing concerts and sporting events.
The only way that will end outside of prison sentences is when fans refuse to pay the inflated prices.
FTC sues Ticketmaster and Live Nation over ticket brokers and fees
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/18/ftc-ticketmaster-live-nation-ticket-brokers