Why Does Ticketmaster Suck?

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:39 how did Ticketmaster come to be?
01:49 the Live Nation merger
02:46 what are we paying for when we buy a concert ticket?
04:05 Pearl Jam
06:05 Bruce Springsteen
08:16 Taylor Swift
11:01: why touring right now is messed up
12:43 what Ticketmaster is really selling
15:16 second-hand markets & scalpers
16:55 what can be done?

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SOURCES CITED DIRECTLY
Brown, August. “How Ticketmaster Became the Most Hated Name in Music.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment....

Budnick, Dean, and Josh Baron. Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How The Public Got Scalped. Plume, 2012.

Rettig, James. “Lorde: ‘Touring Has Become a Demented Struggle to Break Even or Face Debt.’” Stereogum, 10 Nov. 2022, https://www.stereogum.com/2205718/lor....

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