Down With The Monopoly!
Filed under: Music Minute
It's about time!
Looks like Ticketmaster will have some serious competition. Hopefully this will cause it to be competitive - and lower its prices!!!!!!
Live Nation, the owners and promoters of music venues all around the world (who also gave Jay Z and Madonna those crazy $100 million contracts), will be launching its own ticketing arm once its contract with Ticketmaster expires at the end of the year.
A little competition is always good for us buyers!
But at the end of the day, Live Nation is a big corporation, too.
Just plan on them taking your money in other ways - like scalping their own tickets!
[Image via WENN.]
Posted: June 30, 2008 at 6:08 pm
in my experience, the fees for live nation are just as bad but whatev
first bitch.
6th?
third
Oh my god, i would die with happiness if i could get a Madonna ticket for 50 quid
Hey there everybody in the world!!
I for one think concerts are a scam.
There's no more sponataneity and every detail is planned.
To pay so much for a ticket when the DVD will come out a month later
showing you the exact same thing proves my point.
By the way, FIRST!
dont know dont care
Same as Ticketbastard, still the same freaking fees. Bring back TICKETRON! I miss buying concerts tix at Sears, y'all!
Jews suck. Kill them all. Fags too.
dont care
MADONNA is a HASBEEN
MILEY IS NEXT QUEEN OF POP
LETS TALK ABOUT HER AND HOW SHE MADE MORE MONEY THAN MADONNA FROM HER LAST CONCERTS!!!! AND SHE IS ONLY 15
HAHAHAHHAH
MADONNA ROCKS
WHORISH SUX
At this point, anything is better than Ticketdisaster. I worked for them for about a month and they are a crock of shit even as far as employers.
Shout out for Brown Paper Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
Seriously, low fees for producers and ticket buyers. And no, I don't work for them - my derby league uses them for ticketing.
OLD HAG..HANDS DOWN
Maddona looks amazing in this picture!!! Fierce clutch looks like Valentino!!
I'll hold my breath on this. Highly unlikely concert ticket prices will be slashed. Live Nation would like to get their investment back… with interest.
her eyes are sooo red. perez you all of a sudden are putting so much about madonna we dont care. we know she contacted you and it made you soo happy but this is getting out of hand.
Please, fees for Live Nation ticketing will be the same as Ticketmasters, except with Ticketmaster, they never got any money from the ticket price, just the service charge. When Live Nation is making the money from the ticket too, what their excuse for the high service charge fees?
Whatev about LiveNation–we'll still be paying up the ass, or not going at all. Madonna–facelifts much? I know she's turning 50 in August, but she didn't have tight skin and cheekbones like those 25 years ago!
Re: MIMI – Re: adolf –
Lovely, Adolf. Hope you choke on your own vomit.
Those interesting, photogenic cheekbones once again.
La Ciccone didn't start out life which such glamorous cheeckbones. Look at photos from the 80's when she first started out. (And no- it's not a function of losing fat and over-exercising.)
She's had implants!!!
Madonna Cheekonne
Re: MIMI –
Hey Mimi… WRONG! Miley did NOT make more money than Madonna
on her concert. You wish. And besides Maddy's concert is expected to make $268 million (and more than her last). Chew on THAT, beeeeatch!
Live Nation sucks! I just bought tickets from there and a week later looked on ticketmaster for the same concert. I could have gotten much better seats, cheaper on Ticketmaster. what a rip off.
Perez, have you noticed how not too many people comment on articles about Madonna? It's because she is yesterdays news. You are the only one who still cares about her. Do yourself a favor….write about more current celebs.
That's what's wrong with the world - all these entertainers are not worth so much money. Teachers. nurses, people who have a direct impact on our lives earn shit.
Seriously fuckass, are you retarded? Livenation is just Clearchannel with a little extra hooker-makeup on her face.
You've sold your soul to whichever company lets your fucking fat ass into venues. Disgusting.
what a surprise, all this scams happening now that madonnna is on board.
ugliest person on the planet, inside and out.
Madonna who stuck those cereal bowls in your face when you weren't looking?
How can you go out of the house with those awful cheek implants?
You are looking quite cheeky lately!
MADONNA IS THE QUEEN.
Old Old News dumbass
because live nation aka one of the most evil, decent-music killing, lowest common denominator pushing shit of a corporation is going to shower the fans with love..
i think not you boob.
it's yet another consolidation of corporate power which is strangling artistic creativity in this country.
vadge's cheek implants look horrible.
YEAH!!! like that's really going to happen!!! what a laugh!!! by the way Perez, the HC era is officially over in the USA, HC will drop out of the Billboard Top 50 this week! pitiful chart performance at the end of the day she might sell less copies of HC than American Life! Madge is not having a good summer! her men is leaving her, little bro is going to spill ALL the beans, hard candy is tanking and the tour while selling well still has plenty of the more expensive $350 in a lot of US cities, she best stay in Europe they like her shit better over there!
Re: GF –
the queen of what? low rent whores?
Re: MIMI –
so what did you do after you woke up from that dream?
Re: MIMI –
who's miley?
Vadge looks worse than michael and latoya jackson combined.
Man-donna's eyes look red. Evil red eyed Man-donna.
Why do Madonna's eyes always look so bloodshot and glassy in every pic?? Is she a chiefer?
I've always loved Madonna, but feel that she has become waaaay to arrogant.
She puts herself on a pedestal which wouldn't even be there if all those knuckle heads would'nt pay that ridiculous amount that she is charging for her show. I think we should look more into buying Janet Jackson tix this year and support a woman who isn't trying to rip her fans off. Lately, I have been seeing Madonna as a power hungry artist who doesn't give a shit about her fans by charging such a ridiculous amount to see her show. BTW- The Hard Candy album is no where near as good as the "Confession" album. Stuart Price is the man and she should've wroked w/ him again, instead of hiring cliche prodecers like Timbaland. Are we really supposed to Justin Timberlake seriously as an artist? Please! He fooled all of America! He was a member of a boy band group and we supposed to take him "seriously" as a producer? Please! Americans are so easily fooled. Wake up people!!
True, competition is good.
Re: choon – I totally agreee with you re: CLICHE PRODUCERS on Hard Candy…Stuart Price is so much more Out There. The Music Producing Industry in the States seems to be monopolized by people like Pharell & Timbaland…' Not that they're not good…but there's def' some "sound saturation"(C.)happening on the Airwaves etc. Potential 4 boredom there;Yeaah….
My good God is Hard Candy tanking or what??????
Did anyone buy that piece of shit. Madonna's songwriting has really sucked for a while now and you are suppossed to get better not get embarrassing. Please remove those breast implants you had put in your face Madonna. They look terrible!
Leave her in Europe she is a slag. USA has been over her for years. She is old her husband is leaving her (He woke up), her brother hates her and she has to go shopping for babies like they are carrots. 3 babies 3 different dads what a woman lol. Look at the face she looks like sshe should be retired in Miami!
Re: choon – I agree. Vadge is a worthless old hag. NO one gives a shit about her gap-toothed plastic surgeried face anymore. SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRE!!!
YOU'RE ALL UTTER FOOLS!!
Madonna gets papped, what? atleast once a week! Do you really think she could have incisions in THE MIDDLE OF HER FACE! (And I'm not talking about facelifts - I mean these 'cheek implants' people say she has) without anyone actually noticing the wounds?
She hasn't been out of the public eye for long enough to recover from the visual signs of such a procedure.
I have a similar face shape to Madonna IT IS SO OBVIOUS TO SEE how in this photo her FACIAL EXPRESSION pulls in and steches her cheeks over the bone structe - God! She could even be sucking IN air. Look in the mirror and make the same shape as her with your mouth, and tilt your head down slightly and YOUR cheekbones will probably look more pronounced. Unless you're really really fat.
This PLUS clever use of blush/bronzer to 'sculpt' AND the fact that she has lost weight accounts for Madonna's cheekbones.
You're all idiots.
Live Nation is Clear Channel Communications. So we go from one big bad company to the other greedy one.
"A little competition is always good for us buyers!"
^^^^ Why Perez, I do declare! YOU buy tickets to concerts and shows? Why my word Mister Lavendera, I thought YOU knew everyone! You mean Matoonafish doesn't send you front row seats?
Ya disgusting fat slob.
Please stop posting pictures of this reanimated corpse so early in the morning! I'm trying to eat!
I'll have whatever She's having- She looks higher than a kite!
Ah, the benefits of capitalism.
It's "Cheeks" Ciccone-
Back in NYC!!!!!
I think that Madonna's deal with the scalpers is vile. Clearly, she LOVES the idea that some idiots (with more $ than brains) would be willing to spend $600 (or more?) on a ticket to see her perform. She just wants to be able to get her hands on some of that $. She is suck a greedy Pig.
Re: Charl – DEFEND HER WITH YOUR LAST BREATH, CHARL!! No one would have cheek implant surgery if it involved "incisions in THE MIDDLE OF HER FACE!"(OMG!!) I'm sure they have figured out how to do this procedure w/o scarring people's faces, like by going in through her mouth. Since she doesn't eat solid food, just kaballah water, recovery should be simple, like a Simpson.
She looks stoned!
madonna get rid of the fur
Bah. LiveNation starting up its own ticketing won't do a damn thing to undermine Ticketmaster - now we'll have two greedy corporations charging us up the ass, instead of just one.
By the way, Brown Paper Tickets FTW! Go Derby Dolls!
Drugged again Madonna!?
She's a waste of her Father's sperm!
I just purchased tickets to Journey/Cheap Trick/Heart at Irvine Meadows through Live Nation and they weren't any cheaper; it's all a racket!
Wow, her hair and make-up look really good in this picture for a change!
No one really cares about "Cheeks" Ciccone anymore!