Fee’d Up: A Musician’s Take on Ticketmaster
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It’s hard to imagine music fans mourning a break-up of Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation, as a Department of Justice lawsuit requests. But even with this monopolistic middleman out of the way, touring musicians still seem destined to struggle financially.
Guest: Laura Jane Grace, musician
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| 0:54.0 | 34.9% APR representative variable T's and C's apply. Singer-Songongwriter Laura Jane Grace vividly remembers the first time she felt like a club ripped |
| 1:09.7 | her off. |
| 1:10.7 | The 930 club was this historic club in our eyes and we knew it from you know the likes of Ian |
| 1:15.7 | Macai and Fugazi and minor threat and the whole discord record scenes. |
| 1:19.6 | At the time she was fronting the punk band against me. You might know their 2007 hit Thrash Unreal or the 2014 |
| 1:27.1 | transitioning anthem True Trans Soul Rebel. Anyway, on an early tour, the 930 club wanted a cut of their merchandise sales. |
| 1:43.7 | We're literally selling our t-shirts for $8. |
| 1:46.5 | Eight dollars, you know? |
| 1:48.0 | And the venue's like, yeah, we're going to take a cut of that. |
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