“We allege that Live Nation relies on unlawful, anticompetitive conduct to exercise its monopolistic control over the live events industry in the United States at the cost of fans, artists, smaller promoters, and venue operators,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement. “The result is that fans pay more in fees, artists have fewer opportunities to play concerts, smaller promoters get squeezed out, and venues have fewer real choices for ticketing services. It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster.”
Oh look, they finally discovered the thing anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together knew 20 years ago.
Stop fucking approving corporate mergers and acquisitions you utter fucking dumbasses.
It didn’t matter until a billionaire was pissed and her millions of fans were also pissed.
It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster.
The best time to do this was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
I hope one day we can go back to buying from the box office without fees.
I just had to pay $17 to buy 2 tickets to a show at a random small venue for my kid.
These service fees are out of control.
I hope you made sure to tip them at least 20% for the convenience 🙃
Live Nation said Thursday it doesn’t benefit from monopoly pricing, saying that Ticketmaster service charges “are no higher than elsewhere, and frequently lower.” The company noted its overall net profit margin is at the low end of S&P 500 companies.
How do they not make a killing? What are they spending their money on? I can’t remember how many years ago it’s been since I got a physical ticket besides the ones I had to pay them for to print myself.
Can’t wait to be able to afford one of those shows and still not go.
Seriously! We’ve been talking about this for 30 years, can we just get it done already?
Sickos: “Yes…YES”
I have this permanently saved on my phone. Now you can too!
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Just go back to no online presales. You wanna go to a show? Line up. One ticket per person. Fuck you.
The whole industry is a joke.
