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Fuck all of these artists keeping ticketmaster alive.
I think that hatred is better projected at all the venues signing exclusivity deals with Ticketmaster so that other companies can't compete and the politicians allowing the monopoly. Taylor Swift was actually partnered with a competitor to Ticketmaster, AEG, but AEG couldn't sell the tickets due to the mentioned exclusivity deals and had to post them through Ticketmaster.
Or are you saying all artists should stop touring? Because that would kill off so many of them as they can't afford to live off streaming and record sales due to corporate fat cats keeping too much at the record labels
I'm saying the artist should do more to try and avoid the venue. Does ticketmaster own all venues everywhere? What about smaller venues and a few more shows? Garth Brooks is a good example of saying "fuck you" to ticketmaster.
Ticketmaster doesn't own any venues, their parent company Live Nation does. Live Nation does own many of the venues in the largest areas (1 in 20, but they have partial control of more). Ticketmaster's exclusivity deals covers another 65% to 85% of the market (no one really knows and was hoping this would come more to light during the congressional hearing).
Artists literally have no choice here. If they want to go where people actually are and be heard, they can't escape Ticketmaster.
Also, Garth Brooks? That's your example here? The guy who wrote a letter to Congress this year defending Ticketmaster as this stand up company who cares about ticket pricing and the fans? Yeah he's said some things against surge pricing but he is definitely not anti Ticketmaster.