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The Department of Justice is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 79 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Only 20 years too late.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

90’s kids… “more like 30”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Livenation was founded in the mid-late 90's, but didn't hold significant power in the live music industry until the mid-2000's. Before that, a pricey ticket for a national act was anything over $25. When I started my career in live production, in 2010, many venues were still putting on local/national act shows for $5 - $20 a ticket. Since then, I've seen ticket prices for the same type of shows double, in non-LN venues, and triple or more in LN venues. Same thing for drink/concession prices. If you were a teen/young adult in the 90's you likely had better access to affordable concerts than people these days.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Here I was just thinking to myself that I can't imagine why it has taken so long. It's not like this is a new problem in any way.

ETA: It just occurred to me that nobody cared until Taylor Swift was involved.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago

It wasn’t so much Taylor Swift, as it was a famously passionate fan base why couldn’t get tickets. If this was the 90’s, and Micheal Jackson’s die hards couldn’t get tickets to the Dangerous Tour, you best bet that people would be beating down lawmakers doors.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

E: or Edit: > estimated time of arrival.