This Needs To Stop Now.
I am genuinely shocked at the state of the live music industry right now. This is exemplified y what just happened this week when Taylor Swift tickets went on sale and due to dynamic pricing tickets went up as high as $22k per ticket. How can this be allowed? Live music is becoming increasingly inaccessible due to what seems like greed. What do you think? Do you think big artists should take a stand against this new system?
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@sonotdown998
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
For what it’s worth, Breaking News: “The U.S. Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster's owner, Live Nation Entertainment.”
@sofaaddict9146
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
I live in London and it was cheaper to go for a weekend in Paris to see Fleetwood Mac than to see them at the O2.
@christkillerthegreat
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
The problem is the resale market. The tickets are exorbitantly expensive for the top artists but any person who a. listens to a wide variety of musical b. lives in a metropolitan area with a good concert scene should not have a problem finding relatively inexpensive shows to go to. Kansas City has a thriving concert scene where the tickets are generally between $40-$90. Shows at the Record Bar are even cheaper, going for an average of $22. Even more expensive tickets to larger venues might be still reasonable at marketplace. Tickets to Starlight are around $100 on average. On the resale market, however, a scalper can charge anything they desire and there is no guarantee the ticket will arrive on time.
@AnitaLife27
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
I have spent $70 for a couple events, but that’s my limit. Mostly I participate in open mics, mostly free, and shows that are $20, $40 at most. I have zero interest in spending obscene amounts for anyone. I would not pay more than $70 if Elvis, Buddy, Jerry Lee, Orbison, Little Richard, and Johnny Maestro resurrected and put on a show. Eff this nonsense! It’s insane.
@TheJardineLuminary
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
I stopped going to concerts and festivals in the early 2000s. Not because of pricing I was just indifferent place. Fastforward to today and I can hardly afford to go to local shows. Fortunately I have made friends at a few venues and they let me come see shows for free, or for a little door work. I have noticed that a lot of bands are pressing vinyl, and selling albums filled with cool art and unique music at their shows, and so I have decided to get a record player and start a new vinyl collection. I will never buy another album, or any music that is mass-produced again since mass produced music is basically free now. From now on only second hand vinyl, music purchased at shows or directly from artists websites.
@BarbaraAntoinetteVeronica
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Coming back to this podcast for the upcoming release of the Darkness new album in March 2025. I don't know if there will be a tour in the U.S. & a venue near where I live yet, but I'd love to see the band. It would be a thrill. Hopefully, I will if at all possible.
@mikeb7379
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
These ticket selling sites also take such a huge cut from the ticket price that, with smaller gigs, very little ends up going to the promoter/venue and therefore the artist, ive heard? Many are closing down.
@ninabalekic1431
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Should the artists have something to do with how much the tickets are…………….if they do, they are greeeeeeeedy for money, it's never enough for them sometimes. She probably doesn't even actually sing either. Rip off.
@carlhungus2521
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
judging by that picture behind you, carrot top stole your brother Dan's tattoo
@flat_bastard
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
I understand what you're saying but I personally don't have a problem with this. At the end of the day It's show business but some people may preferer just being a show.
@MitzukiRose16
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
From about 2013-2019 I was going to so many concerts! Now because tickets are so flippin' expensive AND they sell out as soon as they're announced, I have been to approximately one concert (since 2019) and that's because the ticket was $30 and it was at a very small local venue. It does feel like attending live performances has become a status symbol for people because it's trendy and it makes for good content, but not always necessarily because they're passionate about the artists they're going to see. In short, I miss live music and I wish I could afford it again.
@hillarycourchaine6829
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
I agree 💯, Ticketmaster and live nation is absolutely ridiculous with ticket sales that and also with the pandemic covid BS. Which they're like no vaccine no concert it's so stupid
@shelleynull6532
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
I spent my entire youth going to guns and roses in smallish venues for 20$ many for free. Saw everyone. I just paid 500$ for my son and I to see queens of the Stone Age last month. However we were not in the put but first row dead center so still great seats. I feel like yes it was worth it but still a lot. I hate the fees and I hate this monopoly bullshit. My kids are professional musicians and they already make crap nothing from streaming. All the money bands make is from merchandise and touring and your lucky to make profit touring
@darrenburns16
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Most I've paid for a ticket £90 that was for guns n roses.. who play for three hours.. live proper music. Bargain for me. Paid around £50/60 for Biffy Clyro who play for over two hours .. again proper live music… And both very reasonable for what what you get. These guys have spent years doing what they do…. This absolute trollop people pay huge amounts of money to see ,no skills, no talent .. embarrassing
@sarahdaw6648
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Too bad that people didn't support Pearl Jam when they took Ticketmaster fight to Washington DC. They lost a lot of money during their prime protesting the ticket prices.
@MendingWall2
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Rambling at clouds.
@mrandersson2009
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
They should use a Dutch Auction to sell tickets. Starting at $1 million ending at $1.
@mystixa
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
People going to live music are paying into a system that is broken and creating this obscene cost structure around a few top artists. Long tail is working for a lot of people, but not for many long established artists that continue to desperately hold onto the label system, or indeed many young artists that dream of having that rock star lifestyle that was promised to bands of the 60s-80s. What you said in one of your videos about many artists not being able to transition from a product economy to a service one was right on the money. I'm workin on making it in the service economy, and not sure that I can, but I am absolutely certain that I couldn't in the product economy where the seats at the table are all taken already.
@fhhghggf6038
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Is it not the reseller that is making the big money? Not the artist themselves?
@mattdixeymusic
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
I love live music, but NEVER go to a concert. Can't afford it. Wouldn't spend that amount if I could. Music shouldn't be just for the super rich. Spending £50 back in the 90s for a stadium gig always felt a bit of a push, but not too bad.
@MrThrustSSC
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
It is a weird world. I am one of the so called middle aged white men. I do have okay money to spend for concerts and go to al lot of them. I often see bands up to 50,- € and have a lot of fun doing so. But I also want go to some of the Mega-stars. Up untill recently money was not an issue in that case and I never really thought about it. But now really every one of these big stars costs between 100 and 200,- € per ticket. It just feels wrong. And people with less money to spend are really screwed. Since when is going to a concert a real luxury event??? I guess the problem is that the usual fans of the old big stars (say Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel, Elton John and the likes) are middle class and accept it, maybe still reluctantly, to see their old heroes. And still, Mr. Styles and Mrs. Swift top that with ease!! First world problem, nevertheless it´s a shitty thing. In the 70ies and 80ies every music-fan was able to afford even the big stars like Stones, Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd.
@karencooper3428
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
The way you described dynamic pricing is just supply and demand free market economy, it's the way free markets work, if you set the price reasonably to start with, the rest should be up to the people and the economic pull. What they're saying by capping it is saying an artist should not subject to 'normal' rules
@djsnoozeyalooze
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Snooze ya Looze!
@AprilJMoon
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Ticketmaster is the problem. They basically own live music. They are a monopoly, and they are illegal. So whose pockets are they greasing
@rileyk5228
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Pearl Jam tried to tell everyone. And they were laughed out of the building
@Warpathjak
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
First of all no one should pay money to see t s sing her bs same sounding songs
@glennkaefer6716
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Dynamic pricing is a joke. I just don't go anymore. Enjoyed Motley Crue , Arrowsmith for $30 in the 80s, now they want $3000. I don't make 100 times what I did in the 80s.
@Rockr69747
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Enthusiasts: code for ass kicking fans. That's who I'd want as well.
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