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Re:Blink-182 Tickets Are So Expensive Because Ticketmaster I... by JumpCrisscross on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:16PM (#33290543)
> If an artist wants to play a big venue and make money by volume, then they need to grin and bear it

Blink-182 is not in this category.

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Re:Blink-182 Tickets Are So Expensive Because Ticketmaster I... by FireBeyond on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:16PM (#33290553)
Why? Because they're "too big"?

Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen will tell you a similar story.

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Re:Blink-182 Tickets Are So Expensive Because Ticketmaster I... by JumpCrisscross on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:33PM (#33290744)
> Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen will tell you a similar story

Springsteen's team is defending dynamic pricing [1], with Ticketmaster claiming "promoters and artist representatives set pricing strategy and price range parameters on all tickets, including dynamic and fixed price points."

[1] https://www.ticketnews.com/2022/07/springsteen-manager-fires...

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