Musicians Telling the Truth About Ticketmaster
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- Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2022
- Watch this compilation of Nirvana, Kid Rock, Minor Threat's Ian MacKaye and other musicians telling the truth about Ticketmaster.
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Kid Rock: ruclips.net/video/PpufCRHg9os/видео.html
Ian MacKaye: ruclips.net/video/V9HIXIMezwk/видео.html
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M. Shadows: ruclips.net/user/shortsmmOdCxDk_NE
Saying Ticketmaster is a criminal enterprise is like saying the sun is hot.
underrated comment 😂
@@youareweirdforreadingthis “underrated comment” is an overrated comment
@@TheUuhhh🧂
@@TheUuhhh Guess cuz ur name is J.K you were joking, Or are you the joke?
lmao idk
The moon is cold.
I bought tickets for Rage Against the Machine in El Paso, TX. That was literally supposed to happen before the pandemic. And then it hit and they held our tickets because "the band was still scheduled to perform". Fast forward 2 almost 3 years later, the band cancels the tour and ticketmaster refuses to reimburse our tickets. What they get away with is beyond disgusting and borderlining criminal. Someone needs to put an end to them already.
Rage on behalf of the machine. Fake ass communists jet skiing with Obama in Hawaii. It’s sad this is what our hero’s have become
Rage are commie hypocrites.
You may want to check with Ticketmaster. I had tickets for Rage Against The Machine as well in Portland, OR and after 3 re-schedules our date was cancelled as well and I got a full refund last month.
When the pandemic hit I learned all about Ticketmaster's refund policy. If a show is postponed you are eligible for a refund after a new date is announced. After the new date is announced you have 30 days to request a refund. If a show is cancelled (the 2023 RATM show in Portland was cancelled, all previous dates postponed) then you are eligible for a refund. I had tickets for Judas Priest last fall when they had to postpone and at that time I was told if new date was not announced in something like 6 months I would be offered a refund.
Laws in Norway stops them from being able to do that here at least
F them man! It sucks how they rip us off
The tickets are just outrageous. Like seriously though, venues all charge so much for food and drinks even too. It’s ridiculous.
Not to mention the God damn stadiums accept cash only and its like 8 bucks just to use the ATMs they have around its fucked
Norway has high alcohol prices in general, but atm venues have 0,4 liters (less than an American pint) for around 12 dollars.
That's why you eat and pre-drink before you get in. I was able to sneak in a few plastic bottles of vodka now and again ;) Then, just use that one $20 beer to keep your BAC up ;)
It’s too much and really not worth it
I thought $39 for the KISS reunion in 96 was outrageous 😂😂😂
That same month I saw Kiss, Crüe, and Satriani. I was broke for months!
Oh boy lol
Which part, paying 39$ for tickets or seeing KISS? I kid, I kid
For a metallica show in august 2023 tickets are 600.00 for GA standing room on the field...fucking outrageous
@@darth_vyper that's a 2 day ticket and the "field" is directly around the stage which is basically the pit (I know the center "snake pit" is different), and you're also seeing Pantera. I paid $170 for nosebleed 2 years ago, my buddies in the pit paid close to $300 each at the same show. BTW the field tix are all gone. >$700 VIP tix are all that's left if you want anything close.
0:50 never really been a kid rock fan but I have a ton of respect for him because of this!
Kurt's face kills me everytime
If only he were alive today to see how crazy the prices of tickets have gotten
Yeah.. him too
@@scrape559 damn💀
@@scrape559 you mean Courtney love too?
it sucks when you can't properly finish a good yawn
Never thought I’d say this in my life, but respect to Kid Rock. That’s actually a great idea. 😅
Artists taking a cut if they are Big enough is ok for me. However the real problems are others, Ticketmaster has a monopoly on the industry, they can charge whatever they want, put dynamic pricing and even control scalpers. Recently in Mexico Bad Bunny did a massive concert (a venue for 85,000, sold out for 2 nights) and was a fiasco, tickets oversold and manny were duplicated (Even the ones printed in authorized places) and literally thousands could not get in with real purchased tickets that in some cases were over 400 dollars + charges.
I thought the same damn thing.. Crazy world huh?
The horrified look on Kurt's face! Absolutely rolling in his grave right now
@wes m. That's the word! Genuine. Kurt was a genuine man. And you could say the same about their band! Our beloved Nirvana.
Nowadays misses such guys/bands so much! Had the chance to see them live. That was their last show in France on February 1994, the 18th.
@@axelbartmoss8045 I could've seen them at their second-to-last concert in Slovenia. There was just one problem ... I was 7 :-(
I love Kurt’s eyes when he heard that! Instantly pissed off
So true. Around a year ago, I wanted to go to a Elton John concert. I checked ticketmaster and the tickets were 2,000 or 200 for nosebleed. Never went but was shocked about the price. Its honestly ridiculous how much tickets cost. I wish I could go back in time to when tickets were cheap and anyone can go, instead of having to pay a month's worth salary for one person.
I wanted to go see him too but I wasn’t paying those prices
Back in the day for $2000 I could buy tickets for 100-200 shows....
Live nation is so much better than Ticketmaster. People complain about ticketmaster yet keep using it. I just don't get it. There are way better options than Ticketmaster.
I recently found an old ticket stub from seeing Van Halen in 1984 at the height of their popularity. Biggest band in the world at the time. Total cost of ticket on the floor...$13.50. Even in 1984 dollars it was very affordable.
Katy Perry’s Promoter Owns Ticketmaster and is in collusion with ticket scalpers.
Blink-182 tickets for their upcoming tour for their Montreal stop are 550/ticket floor or 160 in nose bleed.
That's insane. No band is worth that to see live. I don't care who it is
Especially for ridiculous band like clink 123 go..
Thats ridiculous. $160 for the best seats and 50-70 for nose bleed would be ok. I am not a fan of government regulation, but with a monopoly like this and it being a cultural event (ie something that should be available to all people) i sometimes think there should be some enforced limit. Like: on events with 2000+ tickets, at least 25% of tickets have to be available at max $70.
Even Kid Rock thinks it's too far lol
bruh kid rock pulled in like 250 mil across his career, he's good n he's good.
Kid Rock isn't a bad guy. People just say he is because "conservatives bad, how dare anyone have a different opinion".
I don't agree with the majority of his politics. The Trump stuff specifically but I can tell you from personal experience that he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met.
He spoke truth and had a solution. I may not like his music but I would 100% support this man’s vision bc he is right, cost of entertainment is unbelievable!!
@@botwoondestroyer9844 I just don’t like his music
When scalpers have LITERAL CONVENTIONS on how to do this and own a dozen accounts, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS! It hurts the fans, the artists, and the venue!!! You resell one front row ticket for a few grand and resell nothing in the balcony, but the venue has no idea and hires enough people for a sold-out show. No merch or concessions are sold upstairs, and fans that would have paid normal price but were priced-out don't come.
I paid $66 to see Ozzfest 2001. That included parking. Most shows I go to tickets are around $32-38. Usually four bands in decent sized clubs. Seeing anything in a arena or stadium forget it. $700 for nosebleed? For that price I better get to do a line of coke back stage.
I've bought working cars (even recently) for less...
@@the_kombinator where? genuinely curious lol looking for a bucket
@@samanthaavila2154 Friends mostly. I got a 2006 Corolla (admittedly with 325k) working air, no rust, winter tires, for $1200. A 2005 Sonata a year before (295K on it) for the same $1200. AC stopped working, but it's mostly a winter car.
Deals can be had, you just gotta know where to look. Hell. last year I got a free Mazda3, 230k, fixed up the rust and sold it.
Ticketmaster is in collusion with ticket scalpers, CBC News went undercover and exposed them.
I was a teen in the 90s. Most ticket prices were between 25 and 40 bucks. I can't imagine paying today's prices. I don't care whos playing.
Yeah Foo Fest was like $27.50 (I had the stub for decades) and it was like 3 good bands and a decent band. Hell I saw The Offspring in 2018 for, I think it was like $60-$70? 311 was there too.
How much are prices now?
Probs like a weeks wage
@@watosmate8935 In 1997? Like a day's wage at min wage part time. Now? LOL.
That's why a lot of us can't see our favorite bands. And that is a sad situation. 😥😡
yep but i saw megadeth got front row for 160 which aint bad but not even close to how it was
True. Today i might be able to afford these shows. But my love for music started 25 years ago. And back then i asked my parents for 20€ to buy tickets.
If you have 3 kids and want them to get into live music - its suddenly a decision between a live show or a family holiday. Thats ridiculous. With todays pricing, i dont know if i would discover my love for liveshows anymore. Thats even more terrible then me in my late 30s skipping a few shows because i refuse to pay that much money on tickets.
@@emojack thats why you dont see metallica 250 a ticket for shit ass seats
A few years ago I tried getting one Rage Against The Machine ticket thru TM. I loaded the site on my computer early, and played the waiting room game patiently for a good shot. When the tickets officially went on sale, I could not select one. It kept giving me the same error message, basically saying, "We don't like the device you're using". Meanwhile as I kept trying, the seats disappeared and the strange "charity" section prices kept going up. My guess is they were trying to push their phone app instead of letting me just use a laptop. Irony: the show was cancelled anyway.
The shitty thing about LiveNation and Ticketmaster is that they actually own several venues so it’s very difficult to shake that monopoly
Several? They've got exclusive contracts with just about all of them. That's what stuffed Pearl Jam in the 90s
The former owns the latter so no one can escape it
The thing that PISSES ME OFF is that Ticketmaster condone the scalpers. I can’t get tickets but they can get 100-200 tickets…..and now I have to buy from them.
We people need to keep pressure on this topic! It’s in our own interest
Because scalpers resell through TM several times over, with TM collecting a percentage every time they do.
@@jpryor27 but is that for every concert? I was a manager of a high profile artist once and my TM needed to listen to me, not the other way around…
The fact that 30 years ago $50 for a concert was considered expensive. Oh how times have changed.
Imagine 50 dollars for a big headlines today? I would go to that concert even if I don't like the artists/bands.
That $50 is $106 in todays dollars, so it's not that far off.
I didn't realize that this has been a problem for so many years.
Just bought Metallica tickets for 2024. Prices were crazy
At least it will be a good show
How was it for you? In munich it appears that on launch all cheap(ish) tickets showed as "sold out" an people had to buy the expensive tickets but a few days after that, you could buy more and more of the cheaper ones.
The show is probably going to be sold out anyway. I find it disgusting that they force early buyers to spend more just because they know, the early ones really want a ticket and will accept to pay almost any price... Allegedly
@@emojackI bought tickets for Hamburg. Got seats pretty far towards the front, 230€ for two nights
@@emojack for two nights for the Minneapolis show was like 2 or 300 each depending on where you sit. In not in GA but close enough to the stage.
Oh wow I didn't know Ticketmaster was around back then
If only Kurt saw the ticket prices now
I remember paying $8 for ozzy & metallica tickets & the shirts were $15-$20. I just paid $600 for metallica one night with pantera & one night with 5fdp in st louis mo in nov 2023. The shirts are prob going to be $50-$75 each. It's going to cost prob at least $2000 if not more to go to these shows. By the time I pay for tickets, shirts, food, gas & 16 hours of travel time, 3 nights in a motel. At least I have a year to save up for it.
I hate money, it disgusts me but we need it. I hope you, everyone there has a great time and somehow things happen that are so great it takes the horrible taste of paying out your mind.
@@ironcity4182 I figure I work 7 days a week. I work around 110 hours a week between 3 jobs. Since Nov 2013 I've taken 5 personal days off & 3 weeks off. I don't care what it cost I need to get away for a while blow off steam & relax.
I remember the days of waiting outside the venue with a lottery ticket and if that's how you got your ticket at the door I miss those days
Hasn't really gotten any better, has it?
Worse
Much much worse
I’ve been to a couple of Pearl Jam shows this year, and it was over $100 just for the nosebleeds😔. And they weren’t even resell either.
That is high considering you couldn't pay me $200 to see Pearl Jam on purpose.
I looked up Lorna Shore tickets at a venue I've been to a few dozen times for a lot of different bands, ticketmaster wanted $145 for general admission when every other show was less than $50. And that was for WAY more popular metal bands (KoRn, Static-X, ect.) not so long ago.
The fees are what kill me.
The convenience fee takes the cake.
Ian MacKaye is awesome.. Fugazi and Minor threat are some of the best punk rock bands ever
Just saw Iron Maiden few weeks ago, $35 just to park. Security jumped in old guy for drinking his own booze in a plastic bag. Beer $20 a pop. Bloodsuckers
*"Wait, you guys buy tickets?"*
- That drunk uncle at every rock concert
Mr blue collar Springsteen charges 10k for front row. Concerts are now only for rich people
I'd rather travel.
Imagine paying that much to hear some truly awful music
We wanted to see Ghost this past September and the tickets got up to almost 300 a piece. After fees for two tickets it would be 600 to see them. And they were an hour and half away. So we missed seeing our favorite band. Sucks.
That sucks. I saw them three years ago for 70 bucks. And they were sensational
@@markwilken2492 they’re amazing live. We got to see them in 2018 when he was Cardinal, I really really wanted to see him as Papa. Hopefully next time 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Some weeks ago I saw a flyer with blink182 coming to Hamburg, Germany in Sept. 2023. "Oh lets tell some friends from back in the days and buy some tickets"
Well, 309€ directly in front of the stage, and 180€ in the rear on ticketmaster. Eventim sold out for 80-120€ almost instantly. For 309€ i had top tier bands in the 90s and 00s at Rock am Ring or Wacken Open Air an entire weekend including lots of alcohol. I guess these are the worst times to be young.
yep, it really is awful… I‘m sixteen and go to many Punk Concerts from small, regional, unknown bands and it‘s cool ( I always pay like 5-15€ per ticket, but compared to ticket prices from back then, it‘s also a lot), but this summer I went to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers (also in Hamburg, lol) and I paid 120€ for one Ticket, second front of stage… And compared to other bands, they still were very cheap :/
I never planned becoming rich, but now I think it‘d be great, because then I could see at least some of my favourite bands, before they‘re all dead or split up :[
I saw posters in Stockholm too and I got so excited until I found out that the cheapest tickets I could find were like 700kr and that was at the back.
I was gonna go see Smashing Pumpkins a few months ago but it was like 120 dollars for 2 tickets. Guess I still haven't been to a concert yet...
You saved $120, I wouldn't be upset about that.
$120? That's insane.
You saved yourself. Be happy lol. 😊
@@princessolmeca2933 ikr? I was expecting to spend about 50-60$ for tickets.... thanks ticket Master.
You never been to a concert before? wow
I stopped buying tickets years ago, instead I work for the venues and they actually pay me! Sure, for every 15 bands I don't have interest in, there's that one where I get to meet, interact and work with the band(s) that I admire.. Of course it became a career, but I have met most of my idols.
It's always been a problem, yet it still happens
I cant believe Dave growl said that when I paid 200 a peice for me and my brother at Foo fighters and I didn't use ticket Master that's what I was charged
I bought tickets before covid for the story so far, after covid started the venue updated their covid regulations 2 days before the show with no refunds to people who couldnt go. Couldnt go because no one would give me a rapid test. So I lost literally 80 bucks
same thing happened to me with a 311 concert they told us less than 24 hours before the show that we had to be tested and all that crap. No refund. The show got rained out and we ended up getting refund only because the band cancelled the show.
@@jarredeckman1976 it should be illegal to do that tbh. It's a quick scam that venues got away with
I'm so happy Ticketmaster is finally getting heat for this. I had the same issue for Shawn Mendes' past two concert tours and was unable to get concert tickets 😔 It's the worst feeling not being able to see your favourite artist.
Probably did u a favour on that one
haha, 50-75$… I wish, Tickets would be that price today…
I know we‘ve had some inflation, but still…
I
I paid 45.00 for lower bleachers right by the stage for the 2013 Megadeth Gigantour and roughly around the same price for pit tickets for 2016 SLAYER concert. The most expensive concert I went to was Motley Crue both in 2009 and 2014
Back in the day concert tickets went anywhere from 8 to 14$. That was before Ticketmaster came in and took over like the mafia. The artists are also charging hogh prices for meet n greets. I'm not sure if that's all on those artists or if the organized crime conglomerate known as Ticketmaster had a hand in it. I don't go to shows anymore. Ever since Dime was murdered it's changed.
I quit going to shows a long time ago. Hell, I don't very often go to the cinema any more.
I remember going to see bands like Rollins, Green Day, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, Tool, the Ramones at Anaconda in Santa Barbara,. Tickets were always between 12 and 20 bucks. Fugazi rolled into town and charged $8. Lowest price I ever paid for a concert ticket was Fugazi. Now to see Green Day and Rancid this summer it'll cost $311 per seat
First concerts I went to here in Buffalo New York Jethro Tull 71 or 72...thick as a brick tour Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath tour & Deep Purple Burn tour in 74. 6.50 per ticket gold section memorial auditorium. Those were phenomenal top tier bands. I wanted to see Alice In Chains this year 300.00 per ticket...screw that. Most I paid for a ticket was 150.00 per to see Paul McCartney...a Beatle. Can’t go to big shows anymore it’s ridiculous.
I guess we are all going only to Kid Rock lives from now on LOL
I'd rather just never hear live music again.
@@deciplesteve cmon don't act like baditibawah wasn't on par with Beethoven finest compositions
@@deciplesteve same
I LOVE the fact u included Fagazi in this video!! They even made a song about this exact scenario 30 yrs ago!
The song by Minor Threat
Ticketmaster has been facilitating scalping., Charge them for it! And ban the practice of reselling tickets for massive markups! And cap the fees that ticket sellers can charge!
So how do you destroy a company who's so greedy and intends to suck everyone dry during a recession?
Sue them into bankruptcy
Kurt Cobain's reaction to ticket prices kills me every time 😆
I've seen the twins of evil tour, I've been to knotfest 2018 and 2019, and seen probably over 50 shows in my life so far. The most I've ever spent on a ticket is 160$ but it usually averages around 40$.
And now you need a Ticketmaster app on your phone and you can't buy tickets and access tickets without their app.
I didn't know that part, that's fucked.
Yes you can just use the website, they make you THINK you need the app. Only difference is the brightness isn't automatic.
@@DeAthWaGer Do people really want to use the web browser on their phones though?
@@newcenobium8872 apps never really close, they drain your battery, take resources and slow your phone, and transmit all your data so they can sell it. I stopped using most back in my iPhone 5 days, that's why my 7 year old LG still works like new. Use Greenify to close whatever you have running.
@@DeAthWaGer Ya, I know apps are invasive and hurt performance, but often browsing the web on your phone sucks. Websites, more often than not, run clunky and aren't designed for mobile.
Dynamic pricing is the biggest load of bullshit and a way to max out just how Ticketmaster can rip everyone off.
I can watch free concerts on RUclips through my projector and crank up the volume, and it's almost like being there and good enough for me
Ok dad. Literally what my dad would always say when I was growing up as a Kid
I remember him waking up my sister's and I to do chores on the weekend At 6 or 7 AM blasting Ted Nugent, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, And various other artists. An old school set up to 16" RC a's that you could hear blocks away
Imagine Nirvana tickets now!!!! I wish I would of got to see them but sadly I’m only 20 years old and born in 2002. I’m sure the tickets would be at least $1,000 for a lawn seat because of how legendary of a band they are but I feel like Kurt wouldn’t let that happen
We can't predict that. Kurt refused 6 millions dollars to play on Lollapalooza
Last show we attended was TOOL before the pandemic and we paid $350 a ticket and that was highest I’ve ever paid
Blaming Ticketmaster is easy, but it's also the recording artists (Taylor Swift, Blink 182, Bruce Springsteen, etc) who agree upon these practices and fees. It's naive to think that recording artists, who are usually meticulous about recording and touring, no nothing about what's going on at Ticketmaster, especially since they're profiting from it.
Ticketmaster owns so many venues you really don't get a choice
Bootlicker
It is ticket master though. The cure were on tour recently. They were selling tickets for $20. Someone got 2 tickets and the final price with ticketmaster fees was $170. It's not just the bands, ticketmaster are actively ripping people off. Robert Smith was fuming and got ticket master to issue refunds to those that were over charged.
If only there were a, “love,” button. Better yet…a, “shout it from the rooftops,” button for this video. Thank you Loudwire.
Sad part is. Not just concerts but even shows in general are outrageous.
A good example of how bad it got in the last 5 years only is… I saw Paramore for $30 in 2018. This year I tried to go see them live and tickets were around 600/800… I’m an Artist too and I understand that we all need money but holy fuck…
Holy fuck that is robbery.
It's this kind of thing that made stuff like Napster possible. The artist needs to be paid, but demands so much that people push back.
@@douglasjarnagan3835 I'd put it to the record companies fucking artist and listeners. Tom Petty got pissed at his label for raising the price of his cds in the 99a
Seen the Stones, Doobie brothers and Van Halen at the superdome and paid only 12.50 at the door for gen admission. How does that make you feel?
…8 track tapes were also $4-5 and Gerald Ford just became president
It's insane how crazy expensive all these big rock shows are getting. And with the global recession, it will bite them and Ticketmaster in the ass and force them to lower the prices since people won't be wiling to fork over so much money for a ticket to a concert.
It's SO much bullshit that it's impossible to purchase a ticket without "convenience" fees. Whether you buy prior, day-of, online, at the venue - there's always some bullshit fees tacked on. And it is bullshit. There's no reason to do that other than because they can.
"we need ticketmaster because scalpers"
Ticketmaster charging thousands for tickets
I have no respect for Kid Rock whatsoever but I do appreciate his comments on this video
My bad, it is Minor Threat!! Listen to it, it's a great song.
My $32 dollar Spiritbox ticket had over $15 worth of fees. That’s almost half the price of the f**king ticket. And that’s a SUPER cheap ticket…
Pearl Jam, I believe were the initiators of the movement, they were the only ones who fought for maintaining the prizes low and no other band or artist joined them when all that happened.
Would be nice for some bands to rent out places, include optional parking if needed and sell tickets exclusively from the band website or the venue. Is this possible? This way maybe Ticketmaster could be avoided?
The problem isn't the bands, it's the venues. Selling tickets is tougher then it seems, so the venues all have exclusive contracts with Ticketmaster to sell tickets. Pearl Jam tried to fight it and lost badly.
When I first started going to concerts 40 years ago, fees were a dollar. It was less then 15% of a ticket price. The past couple years the fees have been 25 to 33% of the price. My son's were so excited to see the Offspring and tickets were $62. Expensive for them but manageable. Fees were nearly half the prices of the ticket.
Recently I looked up tickets for a small band that’s going on tour on Ticketmaster. Found tickets for $40. Went to the bands website and clicked the link for my city. Found the tickets on a different website for $25.
was gonna go to bad omens in Milwaukee which bad omens isn't even as big as some of these guys, and ticket master was charging 347 BUCKS FOR A TICKET. couldn't go because of it >:(
And today it’s worse they even charge you extra to keep your ticket safe and refund you money if it gets canceled
I will order directly from the venue if at all possible before going to an outside ticket service
Ticketmaster is ridiculous. I bought PJ Harvey tickets and the cheapest tickets I could find that were not complete nosebleed were $100
In the mid 80s to early 90s tickets were pretty cheap , I saw anthrax support iron maiden at the NEC and the ticket cost 28 quid , and we thought that was a lot , most bands we saw like , slayer ,megadeth ,anthrax etc etc the prices were always under 15 quid , I paid 9 quid to see sepultura at Wolverhampton civic hall in the arise tour , I've heard that tickets for maidens gigs next year are around 100 quid per ticket , if that's the case I wouldn't buy ,although now records don't sell I don't understand how up and coming bands make any money other than from tickets ( bands just starting don't have much merch to sell ) back in the early 90s ,if you were in a band and you gigged on the weekends you were lucky if you made anything , a lot of the time bands were paying to play ( the venue's wanted a guaranteed amount of entry cash for a Friday or Saturday night ,that had to come from ticket sales , so if you sold 100 tickets at 4 quid each , well the band often saw nothing , I can see how tickets could be the only way for a band to get paid , but when starting out and your are the first band on stage you won't get anything from the headline act or venue , it's hard to make money playing music , I'm just glad Ive been lucky enough to earn a living by doing what I love ( drumming) I didn't "make it" , I havnt worked for massive famous artists or anything like that , at least I get to play and get paid , for me ,I've made it ,just not how I imagined it to be when I was 15( and gigging by lying to venues telling them I was 18 lol ) .
Fugazi wouldn't allow their tickets to be more than like, 10 dollars a ticket or they wouldn't play
Because of ticketmaster ripping people off I started seeing more bands playing clubs and other venues that don't work with them
Ticketmaster is the biggest scalper in the world.
Thats what great about just being a local musician, $5-10 at the door depending on how many bands are on the card and if theres 1 stage or 2. Band gets the door and their merch sales, venue gets bar sales, if youre lucky the band gets a part of that too. I hate doing ticket shows I only get 3 bucks or so per ticket sold. Its dumb. Ill do cover charges all day. However at least here in Dayton Ohio most people only wanna pay out the ass for nosebleeds for a mainstream band but wont pay a lot less to see a local act and be up close.
Seen that GNR is playing London next year. I was kinda tempted until I saw for a single ticket ticket master are charging £112….. fuck that!!!!
I was literally the first one to buy a ticket in Jackson Mississippi in 1997 for Marilyn Manson antichrist superstar tour they actually told me you just got the first ticket anyway he got pro-tested out of Jackson and the news said the next stop was Biloxi Mississippi and anyone who bought a ticket in Jackson could use it to see the show in Biloxi anyway long story short my wife at the time went into labor that morning so I missed the show but I did go in to see him at house if blues in New Orleans Louisiana and uno lakefront arena but my point is he was so controversial back then with columbine going on and all that shit so my few friends that did travel to Biloxi which is about 2 hours from jackson got turned away after they said they would "validate" the tickets I guess that's the rite word they were turned away and refused to let them in and maybe a year after that ticket master was like Houdini they just disappeared and the music shop who dealt with ticket master went out of business they had 3 locations one in the hood part of town and 2 in the high class neighborhood so even though I didn't actually get turned away I know for a fact my friends did
I keep hearing about how awful ticketmaster is, but I've never bought concert tickets through them. it's always been directly from the small venues I go to, and they've always been affordable since I only go see local artists at this current time(can't afford anything else), but I don't think I'll ever use ticketmaster after this. never in my life. it feels like a waste of time, effort, money, and resources.
They just got the kentucky derby. cant afford to go next year :(
why don't people just stop going to concerts? if any of them was smart enough they would stop for 3-4 months and see ticketmaster close doors from bankruptcy
Just before pandemic hit , bts was booked at Scotiabank arena in Toronto, front centre price retail 3300.00 per person
Haha my family flew (3 people) to Korea and back and we stayed there for 1.5 months - $5,500. For us all. It's literally cheaper to fly to Korea and stay there than to see a concert for 2.5 hours.
Doesn't make sense.
@@the_kombinator do venues in Korea work with ticket master or do venues sell tickets directly?
[Laughs in Hawaii]
Seriously though, my home state can’t seem to break away from it since many acts will only ever use Ticketmaster to sell tickets. Put it simply: I wish I didn’t have to use them to buy concert and event tickets but if it’s not them, it’d be someone else.
4:07 imagine if Nirvana knew how much Jay-Z and Beyoncé charged for tickets lol .. I love the bands from the grunge era, badass sweethearts.
Stupid scam .. if I have to buy thru ticket master I just do not go .. unfortunate for me and the artist
Ticketbastards is charging over a thousand dollars a tickets to the Dead & Company final shows.
Thank God for 2nd and 3rd party ticket retailers. The most I've paid for an event is $160 and that was to see The Tribal Chief☝🏾. Concert wise was Key Glock at $136.
I saw Ghost back in 2013 for $25 a ticket. Now that they got big, it's almost $100 per ticket. It sucks.
I'll probably never be able to see some of my favorite bands because of the prices. I would love to see Metallica, Elton John, and more, but I can't afford hundreds of dollars for the nosebleed seats.
M. Shadows would be the contrarian with an NFT for a pfp
Weeknd has good VIP prices from Ticketmaster this year! Just $400! Sold out FAST!
Tickmaster needs to go!
Don't call them Ticket master for nothing 😤