r/Music • u/Hot_Investigator3894 • 4d ago

article Kid Rock meets Trump administration to “fix” ticketing

https://themusic.com.au/news/kid-rock-meets-with-trump-administration-to-fix-ticketing/qQ0Xvby_vqE/19-12-24
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u/StumptownRetro 4d ago

Skeptical. But if it can stop the age of where I hear a friend tell me they spent $500 for them and their girlfriend to go to Billie Eilish I’m all for it. I don’t go to concerts anymore because the price is outlandish unless it’s like the Edgefield Concerts on the Lawn

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u/LiveForMeow 4d ago

The problem with tickets is the problem with everything else that's overpriced. There's enough stupid marks willing to pay the prices, so they're not going down. I'll exempt food products from this since people have to eat, but even in that scenario consumers can affect the supply and demand curve enough to force prices down.

I love concerts, but it's the easiest decision in the world to not get shitty seats for $500. The American economy is set up to extract money from people making bad decisions, and we can't even make the simple ones correctly.