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This is great news but: Please also stop giving Ticketmaster your money. Every dollar you voluntarily give them (for a totally optional product, I might add) encourages them to continue their horrible practices.

"Ticketmaster is such a terrible company!" he says as he buys more concert tickets from them.

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What's the alternative? There's no competition.

Not going to live music, at least in the US.

That's just not feasible for people who don't have the means to simply fly to Europe to see a band. Sometimes it's a once in a lifetime chance that your favorite band happens to be in your city

Of course it's feasible. Nobody is saying "go to Europe", they are saying to not go to concerts. To effect change, you have to make sacrifices.

Exactly. This is not a food company. We're talking about a product (live event tickets) that is totally optional and which nobody has to buy. This should be the simplest "vote with your wallet" scenario ever. If everyone collectively stopped buying the tickets, they'd either be out of business or be forced to change their practices. People like their bands more than they dislike Ticketmaster, so TM is not going to voluntarily change.

Talk is cheap but no one actually wants to make any real (if very minor) sacrifice. Not really surprising…

Yeah and this is why I think this will amount to zero changes in ticket prices. People have demonstrated that they will pay. Venues sell out at the current prices. Why would they take less?

Bah! Live performance is one of life's greatest joys (and has been for over 2,500 years). So we grin and bear the ticketmaster extortion.

I didn’t say you should do it or that it’s ideal, it’s just the reality of the circumstance.

It's easy to say that but a lot of the venues Exclusively use Ticketmaster as the official way to buy tickets for their shows. I called one, and they said to go online or pay at the door and hope There are seats left.

No one is forced to go see a concert. Somehow millions of people survive without doing it.

Agree. Somehow environmentalist have not picked on this. I imagine popular concerts would have huge carbon footprint.

I feel many modern environmentalists are selective on what they want to ban; it's typically stuff that wouldn't burden their lives. Case in point, I'll bet most environmentalists drink plastic bottled water.

Next up, replies with reasons why drinking bottled water is ok for environmentalists.

Internet boycotts of megacorps never work but people keep trying

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