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I'm having an arguement with a friend about this and I want to make sureI have my facts straight. How did the congress testifying thing come about. Did Pearl Jam bring a lawsuit, or did they get caught up in a preexisting one?
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I'm having an arguement with a friend about this and I want to make sureI have my facts straight. How did the congress testifying thing come about. Did Pearl Jam bring a lawsuit, or did they get caught up in a preexisting one?
They were approached by the antitrust division of the Justice Department, the same people who later dropped the case.
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too bad they lost that one because ticketmaster is fucking out of control...I saw a show a weeks back and the service charge was 75% of the face value of the ticket...fuckin bullshit..a $20 ticket turned into a $38 ticket...can anyone explain how they can justify that shit
They can justify it because you really don't have a choice, you either buy the ticket or you don't go to the show. It is the same reason a popcorn costs $6.75 at the movies. You either pay the $6.75 or you don't get popcorn.
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Ilium wrote:
They can justify it because you really don't have a choice, you either buy the ticket or you don't go to the show. It is the same reason a popcorn costs $6.75 at the movies. You either pay the $6.75 or you don't get popcorn.
...and it would take a boycot of biblical proportions to make anyone at TM notice. You won't find 50,000 people for one specific show that will forfeit their chance to see Springsteen or the Stones in protest of high ticket prices.
Same thing goes for movies. How many people do you think will wait until X-Men 3 is released to DVD before they see it, just so they can give a middle-finger to the major movie theatres?
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Thunderclap wrote:
Ilium wrote:
They can justify it because you really don't have a choice, you either buy the ticket or you don't go to the show. It is the same reason a popcorn costs $6.75 at the movies. You either pay the $6.75 or you don't get popcorn.
...and it would take a boycot of biblical proportions to make anyone at TM notice. You won't find 50,000 people for one specific show that will forfeit their chance to see Springsteen or the Stones in protest of high ticket prices.
Same thing goes for movies. How many people do you think will wait until X-Men 3 is released to DVD before they see it, just so they can give a middle-finger to the major movie theatres?
That's why the boycott has to come from the artists. If the other huge bands in 95-96 backed PJ things might have turned out different.
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