I've never bought a ticket on ticket master or anywhere else in my life. I just don't ever go to things that require tickets š
You sound boring
There are many other ways in life where you can have fun without getting fucked sideways by a corporation. But you do you, but make sure you keep complaining about it on social media while you keep letting them do that, though. That'll teach them a lesson :)
Well, youāre also then leaving the bands you love hung out to dry.
No one is fuckin happy about it. I donāt like record labels and their practices either, but you have to end up supporting them when you support the artists. Capitalism is the problem. And itās pervasive. The Ticketmaster problem is also present in ISPs and cell phone companies. Did you forego giving money to both of those industries to make this comment?
Bands have enough money and influence to do something about it instead of leaving us the helpless peasants fight for their livelihood. And comparing essential utilities to tickets isn't a good one, my friend. Also, with ISPs and cellphone companies, we actually have plenty of options.
Iām talking about the arrangement of how companies have worked since the deregulation 80s. Multiple huge bands have tried to change the monopoly Ticketmaster/livenation hold in the industry. And most bands that arenāt global phenomena are beholden to their record labels, who are beholden to Ticketmaster. Blaming the bands is pretty shitty. Theyāre about as powerless as we are, honestly.
Also, ISPs famously have divided the country up and all collectively decided to stay out of each otherās territories for the most partāand they are all running on OUR lines that are public. They supply the ālast mile,ā but we are still paying them to allow us access to our own infrastructure.
Iām just saying, there are so many examples of this. Airlines are the same. Greyhound busses. Trains. Search engines. Google. Credit reporting agencies. Big movie studios. Capitalism is beyond fucked up. Ticketmaster is one small part, and their lobbying power keeps their control. I buy plenty of tickets through smaller distributors like Dice. These are all pretty similar situations. Money = power, and the more power you have, the more power you have, on and on until you control whatever it is.
You technically have some choice, but your route, your band, your internet, your cell phone carrier, your search enginesā¦a lot of them have pretty much cornered a huge share of the market through power brokering/lobbying/VCs funding them. Look at ride shares. VCs drove the price down by operating at a loss for like a decade+. And now that they took over the market, they have all the power.
Your problem isnāt with the bands trying to make a living. Itās with capitalism.
I've never bought a ticket on ticket master or anywhere else in my life. I just don't ever go to things that require tickets š
You sound boring
There are many other ways in life where you can have fun without getting fucked sideways by a corporation. But you do you, but make sure you keep complaining about it on social media while you keep letting them do that, though. That'll teach them a lesson :)
Well, youāre also then leaving the bands you love hung out to dry.
No one is fuckin happy about it. I donāt like record labels and their practices either, but you have to end up supporting them when you support the artists. Capitalism is the problem. And itās pervasive. The Ticketmaster problem is also present in ISPs and cell phone companies. Did you forego giving money to both of those industries to make this comment?
Bands have enough money and influence to do something about it instead of leaving us the helpless peasants fight for their livelihood. And comparing essential utilities to tickets isn't a good one, my friend. Also, with ISPs and cellphone companies, we actually have plenty of options.
Iām talking about the arrangement of how companies have worked since the deregulation 80s. Multiple huge bands have tried to change the monopoly Ticketmaster/livenation hold in the industry. And most bands that arenāt global phenomena are beholden to their record labels, who are beholden to Ticketmaster. Blaming the bands is pretty shitty. Theyāre about as powerless as we are, honestly.
Also, ISPs famously have divided the country up and all collectively decided to stay out of each otherās territories for the most partāand they are all running on OUR lines that are public. They supply the ālast mile,ā but we are still paying them to allow us access to our own infrastructure.
Iām just saying, there are so many examples of this. Airlines are the same. Greyhound busses. Trains. Search engines. Google. Credit reporting agencies. Big movie studios. Capitalism is beyond fucked up. Ticketmaster is one small part, and their lobbying power keeps their control. I buy plenty of tickets through smaller distributors like Dice. These are all pretty similar situations. Money = power, and the more power you have, the more power you have, on and on until you control whatever it is.
You technically have some choice, but your route, your band, your internet, your cell phone carrier, your search enginesā¦a lot of them have pretty much cornered a huge share of the market through power brokering/lobbying/VCs funding them. Look at ride shares. VCs drove the price down by operating at a loss for like a decade+. And now that they took over the market, they have all the power.
Your problem isnāt with the bands trying to make a living. Itās with capitalism.