Who cares if you feel comfortable? Did you ask me if people are comfortable paying high prices for tickets? You took all this money, and you keep doing it! You are a thief, my dude; you make people pay more than what they are supposed to pay. People are stupid too, instead of stop buying tickets, and report ticketmaster and live nation, they are keeping buying tickets! bravoooooo!!!

“Why don’t you feel comfortable about sharing?”

“Before I tell you, you have to promise not to indict me.”

“…”

“Promise?”

“… okay. We promise not to indict you.”

“Okay, the thing is, I may have conspired with competitors to corner the market on ticket sales and bought up 85% of performance venues to lock in performers into using me to distribute tickets. Thus giving me near total control of the market.”

“Yeah, that’s a monopoly. We’re breaking you up.”

“YOU PROMISED NOT TO!”

“No, we promised not to indict you. Commerce doesn’t need an indictment to pull your articles of corporation.”

“Durnit!”

Is it the kind of discomfort one feels when they need to use a bathroom but there is only one for a 10,000 person event? Or the kind of discomfort one feels when it’s a record heat wave but a bottle of water is $20 and despite advertising free water stations, there are none? Oh or maybe the discomfort in paying mystery fees that equal the price of the ticket?

Or maybe the kind of discomfort that only an illegitimate business model about to be exposed would evoke?

This is how you know deregulation doesn’t work.

Ticketmaster/Live Nation is one of the most blatant monopolies in all of history. They should be torn to shreds.

Oh no, they’re uncomfortable?

All the more reason for them to comply, really

Why aren’t you comfortable sharing information with congress?

Ticketmaster is a mafia. They pressure venues to take unfavorable deals or exclude them for tours completely, if they don’t pay extra. That should be enough for some nice charges. They are not above the law and their prices really are criminal.

if congress wanted your testimony do you think that your comfort would be a factor in what they do and how they do it? The law is different for the very rich. It’s aspirational rather than authoritative. “We would really like to comply, but I just don’t think it’s gonna work out.”

Local mom has one weird trick to tell Congress to pound sand, Congressman hate her for it!

Release the dogs on them. Live Nation has done nothing but rip off concert goers and harm small bands with their ridiculous fees and contractual venue restrictions, and this is without even touching on the horrible ticket scalping issues that they refuse to do anything about.

If I’m also recalling correctly, if a venue is signed up to Ticketmaster they cannot independently host events - everything has to be done through Ticketmaster 🤦‍♂️

“Oh, really? Well, we don’t feel comfortable continuing your license to practice business in the United States!”

Here in Germany there are some venues that sell their tickets through dice.fm which seems not to charge extreme fees. Is this something that’s also available where you folks are?

I don’t feel comfortable with them essentially operating a monopoly that both consumers and artists detest. I don’t feel comfortable with paying exorbitant meaningless fees if I ever want to experience a live event. It’s never mattered what I’m comfortable with, I’ve always gotten fucked. I don’t care how uncomfortable they are, I hope they get absolutely destroyed by legal fees and go bankrupt.