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The All-American rejects are calling out the music industry for astronomical concert costs, stating that headlining artists need to take blame instead of just pointing fingers at corporations like Ticketmaster.

They are arguing that huge

headliners have the ultimate power over their ticket structures and that they shouldn't set

a lifestyle of extravagance that forces fans to drain their bank accounts. I mean, how much was a

concert ticket in the early 90s? 20 bucks. Yeah, I mean, you could, there's, I still have friends in radio who post old ticket

stubs and it's, they probably got them, the tickets for free, but the price is listed.

Yeah.

1350 or, you know, 20 bucks, whatever.

But that's, that was a lot of money then, though.

You would definitely be like, oh, I got to save up. I was a kid. I didn't have dough. Did artists play stadiums back then? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, the Beatles' last show was in. Beer. Yeah, Candlestick Park. But I don't think, I think, like Beatles, yes, but I don't think the smaller artists were doing, you know, as big of, Post Malone was having a hard time with his stadium tour, which was called what, the big, the big ass stadium tour.

And then they couldn't sell tickets to the show.

Well, look, I'll give you an example.

I wasn't in radio.

I had nothing to do with, I hadn't even thought about it yet, but I was working for a ticket agent who during the 80s, it was Prince Purple Rain Tour, Bruce Springsteen born in the USA tour. These were mega tours. They were impossible to get tickets for.

We spent, this was before you could buy stuff online, obviously.

So we would go and spend the night.

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