{"id":154716,"date":"2023-03-27T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.org\/?p=154716"},"modified":"2023-03-31T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T19:45:15","slug":"neil-young-criticizes-ticketmaster-for-exploitative-ticket-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.org\/news\/neil-young-criticizes-ticketmaster-for-exploitative-ticket-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Criticizes Ticketmaster for Exploitative Ticket Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"           <!--  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n                jQuery(document).ready(function() {\r\n                    jQuery(\".key-accordion-item .key-menu\").on(\"click\", function() {\r\n                        if (jQuery(this).parent().hasClass(\"active\")) {\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                        } else {\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-content\").slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-accordion-item\").removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().addClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideDown();\r\n                        }\r\n                    });\r\n                })\r\n            <\/script> -->\r\n\r\n\r\n            <!-- start html -->\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"news-key-takeaway-wapper\">\r\n                                <span style=\"background-color:#9259b9;\">Key Takeaways<\/span>\r\n                <ul class=\"news-key-nbox\" style=\"border-color:#9259b9;background-color:rgba(146, 89, 185, 0.1);\">\r\n                                                        <li>Neil Young criticizes Ticketmaster for exploitative pricing, impacting artists and concert experiences.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>The Cure's frontman, Robert Smith, also expressed frustration with Ticketmaster's high fees, leading to a refund offer for customers.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Dynamic pricing is a controversial practice; artists like The Cure, Harry Styles, and Coldplay have criticized it.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Ticketmaster faced scrutiny and monopoly accusations during a US Senate hearing in January.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Neil Young is an outspoken critic of the contemporary music industry and is considering a self-sustaining, renewable tour.<\/li>\r\n                                                <\/ul>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            \n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young has publicly criticized Ticketmaster for its exploitative pricing policies, stating that &#8220;concert tours are no longer fun.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young expressed his discontent with the ticketing giant on his website, where he lamented the loss of the &#8220;old days&#8221; and expressed concern that artists were being blamed for Ticketmaster&#8217;s inflated prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Cure and Ticketmaster&#8217;s Fees Debacle<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young also mentioned the recent controversy involving The Cure and Ticketmaster&#8217;s &#8220;Verified Fan&#8221; sale for their upcoming tour. The Cure&#8217;s frontman, Robert Smith, had expressed his frustration with the high fees charged by Ticketmaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After questioning the company, Ticketmaster agreed that many of the fees were unduly high and offered a refund to customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Dynamic Pricing and Artist Participation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cure, along with other artists like Harry Styles and Coldplay, have criticized Ticketmaster&#8217;s &#8220;dynamic pricing&#8221; policy, introduced in the UK in 2022, which inflates the price of remaining tickets for in-demand concerts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cure chose not to participate in dynamic pricing, calling it a &#8220;greedy scam,&#8221; and suggested that if no artists participated, the practice would cease to exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, Bruce Springsteen was criticized for using dynamic pricing for his concerts.<\/span><\/p>\n                        <!-- <div class=\"container-c\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- <div class=\"row justify-content-between\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- <div class=\"col-post-800\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- start html -->\r\n                        <div class=\"blockquote-wapper\">\r\n                            <div>\r\n                                <span class=\"text_quot\">\r\n                                    <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ticketmaster faced criticism from US Senate members of both parties during a hearing in January.<\/span><\/p>\n                                <\/span>\r\n\r\n                                <div class=\"quot_icon\">\r\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"quot_tick\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot_tri.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n                        <!-- end html -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                                    \n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He responded by acknowledging the confusion surrounding ticket buying for both fans and artists and stating his intent to charge less than his peers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>US Senate Scrutiny and Monopoly Accusations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ticketmaster faced criticism from US Senate members of both parties during a hearing in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the company&#8217;s merger with Live Nation in 2010, Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar called Ticketmaster &#8220;a definition of monopoly.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Louisiana senator John Kennedy described the sale of tickets for Taylor Swift&#8217;s Eras tour as &#8220;a debacle,&#8221; citing technical glitches and an extensive presale period that made it nearly impossible for many fans to purchase tickets.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Young&#8217;s Advocacy and Future Touring Plans<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 77, Neil Young remains an outspoken critic of the contemporary music industry and a proponent of green energy and other causes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In January 2022, he removed his music from Spotify in protest of the platform hosting Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast, accusing Rogan and Spotify of spreading fake information about vaccines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young released two albums with his band Crazy Horse in just over a year, with &#8220;Barn&#8221; in December 2021 and &#8220;World Record&#8221; in November 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is currently considering a self-sustaining, renewable tour that would rely on clean energy sources for all aspects of the production, including stage, lights, and sound.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":154717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3588],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}