ELI5: Everyone knows that Ticketmaster is the biggest scumbucket enterprise on the planet yet no band seems able to avoid their grasp. What's to stop a really major act (e.g. Taylor Swift) from performing in venues that are not controlled by Ticketmaster, or just setting up a parallel company? Submitted by havereddit t3_125c4d2 on March 29, 2023 at 3:44 AM in explainlikeimfive 101 comments 426
swistak84 t1_je437mn wrote on March 29, 2023 at 7:27 AM Part of it is that artists get a share of the fees, while Ticketmaster takes all the blame. Mamy artists are in on it. Ones that trully are not can get ticket prices to be low like the Cure Permalink 1
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