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Originally Posted by mylittledemon
Just get them thru a broker or something
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I know your post was well-intentioned but it really bothers me that this is now the accepted thing. Just pay an unfair and extortionate price (and none of that extra money the ticket sells for even goes to the said artist).
I've never resorted to buying from a tout (broker or whatever you want to call them) and I've been going to concerts for almost 20 years and went to more than 50 concerts this year alone. Some of those concerts this year were high profile sell-outs too and I either got my tickets on the day they went on sale or waited it out and snapped them up nearer the date (this happens all the time, Ticketmaster release seats even to sold out shows). I had front row for Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson, second row and third row for Neil Young and tickets right by the stage for Dolly Parton, Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen (that concert sold out in minutes too) among others. The last time Fleetwood Mac toured here I never even joined the fanclub and I got first row and second row through Ticketmaster for two of their dates.
Maybe I'm not cynical enough to think it's okay to pay so much for a concert ticket particularly in these hard times. It just bothers me that so much of that money is going to a third party whose only skill was getting to a ticket before me.
I definitely appreciate artists like Tom Waits, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty and, recently The Who, who try to stop touts buying up the tickets and give their fans the chance to see them without paying ridiculous amounts of money. If I were an artist I'd hate to think that only the well off could see me in concert.