Who else wants to invent a machine that brings people back from the dead and we bring back teddy Roosevelt maybe even have him team up with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie sanders

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Or ask bernie sanders …

@@epcg2media yeaaaaaaaa no…

@@davidd577u It was "Muckracker" reporters in the media who brought monopolies to the attention of the public that brought them down. Leftist's aren't trying to get giant corporation's or their CEO's more power. White, right wingers do that.

Yup remember those days . My 1st concert was Metallica and it was $20.

The whole music industry has been turned on it’s ear in the last 20 years. Used to be the tour was to promote record sales. Now, the tour is the way the band/label makes money. The costs and complexities of a touring production like Springsteen must be astounding. But Ticketbastards have nothing to do with that. They are the only game in town, if you want to see the band, you have to pay their fees. One of the reasons I haven’t gone to a concert in decades, probably never will again accept if the come to one of the Tribal Casinos, I think they do their own ticket sales. BTW, speaking of greedy, how much more money does Springsteen need? If he really wants his fans to hear/ see him perform, how about he not profit from the tour? Band and crew get paid, but the stars nothing.

My first concert a couple of weeks ago was literally £15 with zero fees at all! I'm very glad, because if it wasn't for that steal of a price I wouldn't have went and experienced Apashe live.

Just boycot and just buy the music from the artist to sponsor them. Maybe have been to 3 concerts my whole life because of this…knowing the reason behind it.

My coworker is super passionate about Taylor swift and paid $750 apiece for average general standing rooms tickets… to me paying over $100 for a show is a ton.

is it really that bad?

@@northernhemisphere4906 Yes. Beyond your wildest imagination

@@jacobbarber3131 so the very foundation is corrupted.. i see

@@jacobbarber3131 I’m just waiting what will happen. I try not to think about it because it pisses me off so much. At this point all the artists just need to speak up and clap back but nobody is gonna bite the hand that feeds them. Everyone needs to hand together and start a revolution/movement against the music industry and it’s not just music but also entertainment

@@henrylam92 I'm down to abolish IP law and erect robust, decentralized infrastructure for publishing, distribution, and ticketing to prevent capitalists from exploiting us if you are.

Absolutely, I miss it, but I can not support bloodsuckers.

The venue charges fees as well.

Wish this was feasible but so many venues use ticketmaster and artists are dependent on touring revenue regardless of who they contract to sell their tickets

I thought I would like to see Harlem Globetrotters many years ago at the Calgary SaddleDome but ticketmaster made sure there was no way out of the “convenience” fee, which was nearly as large as the ticket price itself. Live entertainment is only for rich people. I’ve been to the SaddleDome about 5x in my whole life & they have a plan to bulldoze it as soon as the pandemic is over. I think I’ll never be able to afford to visit any publicly-funded stadium.

Once upon a time, you could avoid the TicketMaster fees by shlepping to the venue and buying direct from the box office. But today the box office at the venue isn't really a box office, it's a TicketMaster outlet and all the same service charges apply. Like any monopoly, they control all sides of the equation. There is no escape. You either pay them or you don't go to concerts, full stop. They make sure that you have no third option.

I wish Taylor would say something. Pearl Jam could not bring down Ticketmaster, but I hope with her popularity she can do something about breaking with Ticketmaster.

@@onlyhappywhenitrains92 Taylor does famously have a good lawyer

@@Sam_on_KZfaq that’s great!

Do you remember how that worked out for Pearl Jam though? They had a disaster of a tour where the only venues they could find were often outdoors and smaller than the size venue they had the ability to fill out with ticket sales. Some of their shows were cancelled due to weather, and sometimes they had to relocate shows at the last minute. And because these days musicians make most of their income from live performances, they lost out on a ton of money for their decision. And after all that, ticketmaster only got MORE powerful. Of course other musicians are just resigned to the fact that if they want to make money, they have to work with ticketmaster. I am sure they would love nothing more than to be able to get rid of ticketmaster.

@@StreakyBaconMan I forgot about their tour troubles. Yeah, it’s definitely an uphill war to fight. Ticketmaster claims the price hikes are to deter scammers but the majority of ticket buyers are actual fans trying to go to the show. I wish we could go back to first come first served at the venue, 1 ticket per person & scanning your ID to deter scammers if they try to pull something slick. Naturally a lifetime ban for the venue if caught & maybe they could be on some sort of concert venue ‘Banned’ list within each concert venue’s system.

You are totally correct, but I'd take it a step further and blame who let ticketmaster get this much power. Any business will try to maximize profits. This seems like a mafia though. like a dead zone the authorities won't touch.

that's what happens when companies control the government. in actual capitalism when shit like this happens its the governments job to step in. however we have reached the point where the companies control the government. capitalism is all but dead in America and has been replaced with corporatocracy. capitalism is the greatest economic system ever but its extremely fragile, it doesn't work if the government doesn't take action against the corporations. it also doesn't work when the government overregulates small business.

@@realyopikechannel capitalism necessitates infinite growth and we dont have infinite resources. Its the “best” system for accumulating wealth, but its not great at actually improving the material conditions of those around them. Capitalism has failed the global south and has only benefited the countries that were in an advantageous position to begin with. The US didn’t grow because capitalism is so good, the US became a super power because they were pretty much untouched by the war in europe

@@GotPoopInMySoup if thats your opinion you dont understand capitalism on a fundamental level. all it means is consumer choice and competition between companies. everything wrong with American economics comes when the government tries to mess with the free market through government led monopolies, why do you think our healthcare sucks? because the insurance companies get paid by the government so they have no incentive to be competitive and provide a good service. you can apply this logic to roads, public education, usps. literally anywhere there is a government monopoly and no competition you see failure. go watch john stossel. capitalisms means competition and when there is competition the consumer always wins. if a company has competition they have to be better than other companies to win you over to buy their products. when you only have one choice they don't have any incentive to do better. thats why private schools are better than public ones, thats why private owned toll roads are better maintained. the only thing the government is good at is wasting money.

@@realyopikechannel thats not what capitalism means, capitalism doesn’t own a monopoly on consumer choice. The barter system had just as much consumer choice as capitalism. And youre right, everything wrong with public services in the us is the result of THE US government, if you look anywhere else in the world you see countries that have outstanding public programs. If you want to know the real reason why public transport in the US is so bad, it’s because most us cities are built with cars as the focus. Go to new york and their rail system is excellent. When you actually invest in improving the infrastructure instead of trying to turn a profit, you create something that actually works. Look at the privatization of the rail system in the uk for example, its has become worse and worse over the years after thatcher let private companies handle it. Capitalism is based on the notion that the market fixes itself, but then why is the price of insulin here 500% that of a country with socialized medicine? It has absolutely nothing to do with the government’s coming in and everything to do with insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry running a racket on US citizens. We could outlaw money tomorrow and absolutely nothing would fundamentally change, people would still exchange goods and services in exchange for what they need, its not a hard concept to follow.

I paid $4 to see CSN&Y in 1970 right after their performance at Woodstock.

Yup..paid $20 + $1 service fee to see Fleetwood Mac on Rumors tour in 1976

What is that now with inflation?

@@merrymonarch still not nearly as much as a modern concert. You used to be able to watch the original Pink Floyd’s The Wall for $10 a ticket in 1980 which inflates to nowadays about the same amount you’d maybe pay for a meal for two.

@@merrymonarch What's the formula? every 10 years costs double? I'm not sure but that would make a $12 ticket in 1970 about $50..?

Transcendental meditation ?

TM charged me $60 in fees for an $80 e-ticket. What is that for exactly!?!

@@-cthulhu-3458 convince fee? We already have credit card companies doing that for a fraction of the cost.

Y ppl pay 300

Yeah, as much as people complain about TM fees, they honestly make sense when you consider how annoying it could be back in the day when you actually had to get to the physical box office within certain hours, but if you're getting fees tacked on without them actually having to do anything, then that's BS.

I remember buying tickets for Prince could be stressfull. But it's nothing compared to the nightmare to get Taylor Swift tickets for my daughter.

Thanks to greed

Having nice things is a luxury of the rich and lazy these days

They send you a receipt tell you to fuck off and you have to go to the booth and order them

Lies again? Hello Sistic

Stop focusing on what you missing, and start caring about what you already have. My 2 cents

Yes, today it's either go big or go home.

Unfortunately I doubt politicians are going to do anything about the situation, because they get a lot of money from Ticketmaster and their subsidiaries to help run their campaigns.

I will never buy another ticket through Ticketmaster. Had tickets for a concert that was rescheduled several times then cancelled (during covid). These tickets should have been an automatic refund.

the thing is, if they can pay off lawmakers and regulators less than what they gained from being ultra greedy, it's a net profit

And all 3 are still rich so it didn'thurt them. Vote Progressive for controlled Capitalism.

I believe it's too late for that we are already screwed no matter who wins it's a broken Nation with a lot of broken people

@@decee6990 you can't give up. We need to reach out to people in our circles so they are aware of what's happening so they can view accordingly

@@michellem4287 it did hurt them. If you calculate their wealth from back then, to today's adjusted for inflation, they were richer than Bezos, Musk, Gates, Buffet combined! The government is supposed to work for the American people, not only the 1% and corporations.

There is no political solution

i remember camping out at venues for tickets in the 80s. back then you had to get a ticket for your place in line and every few hours , staff would come out with a fresh roll of tickets and give you a new one. anyone that left lost their spot. tunes jammin all night long, throwin frisbies or footballs. having some drinks, smokin some weed. cops left you alone because you weren't bothering anybody and they had real shit to do instead of bothering with a bunch of teenagers. and in the morning, you took your place in line. no muss no fuss and everyone was happy. good times

or just stop resale of tickets. used to be illegal. sure a few scalpers made it through but most people would actually ATTEND the concert if that happened.

And you could buy tickets at the record stores

@@innocentrage1 i so miss the small record stores

OMG! Going to the box office…standing in line with other Stans…only paying taxes on top of the original price! The 00s were a crazy time!

@@MiniM69 i was standing on lines in the 70s on wards. the things i've seen smiles from mt hood

So my question is how did one obtain tix to Woodstock at such a time when the internet didn't exist?

I saw YES in Chicago in 1974. I think I paid about 6 bucks for my ticket.

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time... a long time...

@@Thunder-Chief only for us old rockers

I bought tickets to see Yes last Friday in San Antonio for $90. $70 ticket plus $20 in taxes and fees.

Good old Ticketron. Are you from the Northeast? I remember that ticket seller in Philadelphia in the 70’s and 80’s.

Well then, let's take it back.

🟪Ohhh ... ABSOLUTELY!! ... myself, the same, hundreds of concerts and played music myself. At 66 years old, I seen incredible changes, and this country become a corporate communist country🟪

@@americanadreaming there you go, action instead of crying about it.

@@thomas45081 you need to look up the definition of communism, read some Marx, if you think what we're in is anything but late stage unfettered capitalism you are not helping at all

Ultraviolet..Then just give your music away for free. Seriously..

Millions of people support the resale site with their money. Stop the flow of currency, stop the resale site. The solution is so simple.

Capitalism.

I thought scalping was illegal

@@musictosoothe so was sports gambling, then sites like draftkings came along. the internet makes illegal things legal for reasons i dont understand

@@bombasticnonsense4247 It is also a problem with the bots tho, Ticketmaster and live nation have no motivation to stop the bots who buy swaths of tickets and then resell them because they make their fee. It is a completely uncompetitive practice that lets them not change anything

Ticketmaster and Live Nation are the same company now. They merged. Did you watch the video?

No they are just doing business

@@SurvivingAnotherDay nah they merged. LiveNation owns and runs Ticketmaster just as a separate entity from LiveNation. Kinda like how Instagram is still it's own entity just owned under FB/Meta.

Ain’t that the truth!!

It's not their fault that the uneducated masses keep throwing money at them hand over fist.

They already have

Especially democrats. They’re wiping out the middle class

they are and will. They have ruined medicine that's for certain. Healthcare workers are just pawns and patients are just mice.

I won free tickets to see Joe Bonamassa from PBS, last show I have been to. Great show btw.

Nah. I went to shows every weekend in the '00s in NY and NJ. Most I paid was $25 a ticket. Some were as low as $5 at the door. If $5 is high for you, then that's different.

I remember being surprised no other heavyweights joined in. Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, NIN and there were plenty.

If you think the situation is as easy now as it was then, you're mistaken. Ticket Master has *WAY* more power and influence now.

@@MiketheNerdRanger Maybe our society shouldn't let money equal power and influence.

@@joeyoungs8426 lol do think the bands or venues are gonna take less money?

@@nickgavis0305 Not sure how that statement applies to mine…

Front Gate managed that big emo festival, When We Were Young, this year, with My Chemical Romance and Paramore headlining. It was $325 for one day, though to be fair the whole lineup was playing the whole day. Meanwhile I tried to buy a ticket to see just Paramore headline in Chicago this week at a LiveNation-owned venue... $400 minimum, up to $2000 for pit tickets.

There's other websites to buy tickets from that you can use to still support the artists instead of using Ticketmaster or AXS

@@mattwhaley1865 Where?

the "stop going" thing never works and never will

When has consumer side activism ever worked

Never worked and never will.

Many bands have tried, it usually ends up with them being blacklisted and backburnered.

@@ianrobertson3419 I bet if Beyonce, Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift tries it, something can come of it. Just checked TS, she's on ticketmaster. Sad :(

@@ianrobertson3419 You’re missing the point. Bands alone can’t do much, but if all the big names around suddenly decided to do something together, they would actually manage to change shit

Pearl Jam tried in 1995 but they lost when they took Ticketmaster to court. Another issue is, Ticketmaster owns many venues in the USA.

@@books2438 still pretty hard thou unless they want to perform in random places that aren’t really safe to have a concert especially for a big artist. TM has a big control on a lot of venues. Pearl Jam in their peak, tried to sue Ticketmaster and perform on places that don’t use Ticketmaster, they couldn’t it was impossible since the location were random and couldn’t been done. So they were forced to go back into venues that use TM

yep. been going to local acts a ton lately. the musics great, the tickets are as low as 5 bucks, the venues small and personal, and the people (both the crowd and musicians) are amazing. the low prices also make me more likely to buy merch

@@Ty-oe4dr Good point about the merch. Often small bands seem to have graphic artist buddies (or are professional graphic artists as their day job), and make really cool merch, that almost no one in the world will ever have, and if you see someone with that shirt, you might become best friends! What a deal!

Absolutely. Love all of the underrated talent in places like Nashville.

15-30$? It's over 50 since the 90's.

@@xminusone1 depends on the music genre and popularity.

These days if you try and buy a ticket from the venue you're still buying a ticketmaster ticket with their fees completely intact. Things are far worse than they have ever been when it comes to live music due to the oppressive exclusivity agreements they shove into all their contracts.

@@StreakyBaconMan it is very sad! Profit and greed!

Life in general is quickly being unaffordable.

You explained it all very well. That was our journey away from the great titan that Ma Bell was. I thought we'd be held hostage forever. Now to break up Ticketmaster!!

And all the high tech is consolidating into fewer and fewer carriers. Fighting monopolies is a constant process.

I was a union representative for 24 years and it's the solution. It's not perfect but it's way better. But now politicians have convinced people that unions are bad. That's why we can't have nice things.

It only takes a tiny minority of people engaging in anti-social criminal behavior to ruin everything. They try to convince us that giving food to beggars is illegal, but foreclosing on a family of 6 is totally reasonable behavior. We believe it. Why? Because for most of our formative lives we where told arbitrary rules handed down to us by our parents and punished for not following them. Rule of Law is all most people know and while they may understand that laws could change - they only ever feel that way about laws directly effecting their lives. Cognitive bias also blinds us to possible changes simply based on the fact that you as an individual can only care about so many things - your brain automatically ignores 99% of the information fed to you based on nebulous and ever changing focus and attention. For example, good kids follow the rules of football - bad kids break the rules and cheat. What do the rest of the kids do? Simple - they play the game by the rules to the best of their ability and if they break a rule and get punished, its a bad rule and should probably be looked at. The real problem child is the one who questions the very reason your playing the game (fun?) and realizes its not fun for them and decides to opt out. Issue is, the game isn’t for fun - its for control. Its so the adults can enjoy themselves while you are kept busy. Its so Brandon age 47 can feel good about themself as they mock you for not playing.

Pfft, nah, that's how it works. Its a cycle. Your generation was for "love and goodwill" because the generation above you turned to greed. And that generation was "love and goodwill" when the generation above them turned to greed...

Generation of love and goodwill? Wtf? When? You been hiding in the woods? Humankind was and will be a virus🦠. We destroy everything.

Pretty sure the generation pushing 60-80 who effectively had 300% more buying power with wages who fucked the youth out of everything are not a generation of love.

🟪It sure as Hell had ... I'm a Baby Boomer, and first to admit, it's my generation that taken this country in to the shitter!🟪

Edit: also our seats were not that good.

Hope it was worth it haha. I can't imagine spending that much for crap seats and nothing else.

@@Big1nz I was too resentful to enjoy it. I remember the day I purchased them and was livid to not be able to justify buying a better birthday present for her. I mean, if it was something with utility like clothing or furniture for that price or more it would be perfectly justifiable, but tickets to a single show... dang.

@@TennesseeJed and for nosebleed seats on top of everything else

@@ianloeb1672 they weren't the worst of seats, but certainly not worth $400 each. They were in the corner section half way up, so far away that the jumbotron was the only way to see any detail. If I am going to watch a show on TV, I could have purchased a new set of steel belted radials or a washing machine.

You know you are the reason they are still in business, right?

The Irishman = 🤡

Just go to the smaller venues.

They tried taking them to court and lost and was humiliated.. Just like Metallica and Napster, it ended up with the band being hated

@@robertprice4826 They should give it another go and they should all stick together! Sometimes cancel culture is a good thing.

Exactly! And artists need to stop playing..

@@suehowie152 they can still release music on cds and streaming. Plus merchandise ffs! Don't be ludicrous. They can still make money. Then, the demand going down will create a market reset for concerts and other music events.

@@victoriahope8371 I meant at concerts...

That type of boycott sound simple right?! However Concerts are how artists makes their living. In the music industry the record companies make a HUGE majority of the sales of recorded music and the artists makes maybe a third in most cases. It is when artists go on tour is when they are in more control of their earnings. So if we boycott the concerts we are hurting the artists who depend on ticket sales to pay for production and themselves. This will only work is artists don't tour where they don't have to spend any tour costs but it will definitely give TM noting to sell. TM needs touring artists to make money.

@@artsilva well then artists should be able to boycott selling from ticket master.

Capitalism. Were Capitalism is king, customers are always fooled. And the corrupt politicians aren't helping.

I paid $5.00 to see the Beatles at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1963. I sent a postal order right to the Gardens box office. Very efficient.

I saw the stones at Vanderbilt Stadium in 1997 for 37.50 x 2 ! Great seats too.

Agreed, they should put like a law or do something about the ridiculous resellers and having them charge more than face value. The fact resellers and scalpers still get thru on Ticketmaster to just sell the tickets even for thousands is so bad

You just got old dawg.

Let's be clear, that is just stupidity on another level. "watching concerts in the living room"? Who would want to do that shit? The whole point of a concert is to experience music in person. Without that in person experience, it's just a shitty music video.

Not to mention, no nasty porta potties, being at home is deff the way to go.

@@andrewmiller7671 that is a stereotype that has been phased out you idiot. Besides, watching at home sucks because at the end of the day, home concerts are just shitty music videos. If you want to go to a concert, go to a smaller music venue. That's where the REAL music is. Not this pop/mumble rap trash.

I'm sure they lobbied the shit out of Congress & house to make sure no would go against this merger

Same. There’s *always* an a**hole to ruin the show, either by singing every song louder than the artist, or just acting like they’re the only one in their own living room. So done.

Neil Diamond or Bruce Springsteen?

@@kentkearney6623 NIN. You might like Diamond though.

Not going to work.

To be clear, the U.S. encourages monopolies - despite legislating otherwise - because we’re a late-stage hypercapitalist country. Economic dominance at all costs is beginning to spawn internal consequences!

Yep. NRG Park was poorly setup for the Astroworld concert. Not a fan of Travis "cheapskate" Scott but that is just terrible.

@@TheOwl22 At least Travis Scott encourages his fans to sneak in if they don't have tickets lol

@@vice2versa that's illegal and was what caused that disaster in the first place.

@@TheOwl22 who cares

Highly recommend seeing an indie rock band at a smaller venue. It's worth it.

As the dates get closer keep your ears open - Dead & Co frequently release additional tickets through their venues closer to the date. I hope it works out for you to make it to some shows this summer

@@Shell.Manicured Thank you kindly. 💕

I think I remember hearing something about that and I remember when it started getting crazy in the late 90s

Check again the week of the concert. There will be plenty of ppl desperately trying to unload tickets. Prices will drop. They almost always do. AFI was $150 all year. Just saw them for $50. WELL worth it.

Well yes. I assume you don't say that sarcastically, it's called being smart. Stuff happens, this recent video suddenly becomes very relevant, time to educate the masses.

@@blublubblub I wasn't being sarcastic. I agree with you.

@@JustinFisher777 glad to hear it, that's why I assumed you actually DID mean it when you say you love it. You never know though, we're in KZfaq comments, there be beasts in these here parts of the map.

@@blublubblub You're right. I edited my comment to make it less ambiguous.