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by antihero
1332 days ago
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It’s a bad thing because it makes music entirely unaffordable to poor people as opposed to having the initial offering as somewhat affordable and fair. Electronic events, especially the more independent ones, release tickets in ever more expensive batches, eventually hitting them market rate. Also systems that lock you to buying a fixed amount of tickets and then being only able to sell them for what you paid such as with RA Guide and STEP (for a burner event, Nowhere). Allowing those with financial privilege access at the expense of those without us fundamentally antithetical to music and art. |
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No, it's really not. There have never been many peasants going to the opera houses of the world. And it's not at the expense of the poor, it's quite literally at their own expense.
All that is happening here is that technology has allowed the market to directly determine prices, rather than artists and venues guessing at what the market will bare. It only means poor people will be priced out so long as artists as a group don't react to the increased demand. Likely "elite" performers will be able to always demand these premium prices but a lesser tier, and those past their prime, will perform at prices poorer consumers will be able to afford.
What we see now is the result of extremely high demand (there are a lot more people in the US than there used to be) meeting limited supply, and new technology allowing for more market efficiency. The poor people who used to be able to get lucky and buy tickets well under market value are certainly going to be less happy, but that has nothing to do with some moral requirement for music.