[FireBeyond]

If an artist wants to play a big venue and make money by volume, then they need to grin and bear it.

Because TicketMaster/LiveNation own most of the large music venues in the country. And if you don't use them in a "vertical stack" you don't get to play those venues.

And even at $50/ticket, you make money a lot faster in a 25,000 seat arena than you do trying to play 15 nights at an "intimate" theater (hey, guess what, TM/LN own a huge swathe of those too).

We complain on HN about tech "monopolies" (or debate their existence, at least). TM/LN is a much larger effective monopoly that, to my knowledge, has not had any real investigation.

[JumpCrisscross]

> 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.

[FireBeyond]

Why? Because they're "too big"?

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

[JumpCrisscross]

> 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...