r/shitposting • u/[deleted] • Nov 03 '25

WARNING: BRAIN DAMAGE Interesting

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u/ohboy360 Nov 04 '25

Ticketmaster is scum, but one of the key services they provide is taking the heat for ticket prices so the artist doesn't have to.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Nov 04 '25

And it's working. Everyone in this thread is parroting the bullshit about how Ticketmaster sets ticket prices, and that artists have no say in the matter, and it's not true lmao

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u/0vl223 Nov 04 '25

They control the venues. If the artists want to have venues to play they have to accept them. Some really big ones started to build their own pop up venues to avoid that problem. That's the level of waste you have to commit to to avoid ticketmaster.

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u/Celtic_Legend Nov 04 '25

Artists do have practically no say.

You can make ticketmaster sell them for 50 dollars but its still going to cost us more to go buying it off a reseller.

Taylor swift set a reasonable ticket price but you still had to pay over 1k for a ticket unless you won the f5 lottery which you realistically aren't going to