Greedy TicketMaster

Oh, as if concert tickets weren’t already expensive enough!  It seems that TicketMaster is now planning to simply auction the best tickets off to whoever can pay the most money.  Oh, gee… that’s not going to piss fans off.

“The band’s biggest fans ought to have the best seats, not the band’s richest fans” - Tim Todd, Phish fan

I agree as will, I think, nearly everyone else who doesn’t have a bulging wallet.  Of course, what the “little man” thinks may not mean anything, since this is what TeicketMaster CEO and president John Pleasants is saying:

If somebody wants to charge $50 for a ticket, but it’s actually worth $1,000 on eBay, the ticket’s worth $1,000. I think more and more, our clients - the promoters, the clients in the buildings and the bands themselves - are saying to themselves ‘Maybe that money should be coming to me instead of Bob the Broker.’

Greedy bastards.

Posted Wednesday September 3, 2003 in News by Chris Curtis

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Comments

Wow, that’s incredible.  Actually, no that’s quite believable.  After Pearl Jam’s failed holy war in 1998, I think Ticketmaster has free reign to do whatever the heck they want.

And from another post on here, we see that the bands really only start making profits from touring.  And if they want to tour, then Ticketmaster handles their events.

I mean, I hate to sound like a communist, but I see no value to society for the rich to be able to build their world around them in such a way as to further and protect their riches, at the expense of everyone else.

By Derek Jones on September 3, 2003 at 02:36pm link

I should add that that article is one from the other side of the camp.  I felt it was more in vein with this thread--to show just how deeply idiotic this company and its supporters are.

By Derek Jones on September 3, 2003 at 02:42pm link

Yeah, I was going to mention the bit about Pearl Jam and their little “boycott”, but I was too lazy to go searching for a link.  wink

By Chris Curtis on September 3, 2003 at 02:49pm link

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