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Adam Conover just did a video on mega mergers and Ticketmaster was prominently featured. I thought it was pretty well done, but hope you like the guy because he takes his personality to 11 on this one.
Fuck these monopoly fucks.
Adam was touring his comedy set recently, outside Ticketmaster, which is next to impossible to do.
I got mad respect for the guy, actually practices what he preaches.
When he goes back on tour; if you see a show in a town you know people, help spread the word for him, since he's doing it all homegrown.
Plenty of artists tour outside of Ticketmaster, just not big ones. The best thing to do is find a venue near you that isn't owned by LiveNation and follow them on social media/subscribe to their mailing list.
As I've always done, being an elder millennial. In the olden days yonder we had to bookmark individual webpages and create rss feeds, but even rss didn't emerge until like the mid aughties. AOL had been around 10 years and damn near died by then, sames as yahoo.
I miss the old Internet. Sigh
The fall of the old Internet was when AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy got peering rights and Classmates.com started up.
That said, I do most of my shopping online now and have likely saved years of my life due to not having to hunt through stores only to find they could “order it in” for me.
And I’ve never used TicketMaster since they went online, and don’t feel like I’m missing anything. I prefer smaller venues.
I feel ya about the savings. Almost everything I buy is shopped around AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, Craigslist then local. The trick is figuring out if the physical stores are passing any of its wholesale bulk savings to you.
Usually, that's a laughable assumption, but some things, like individual plumbing or electrical parts, just go to the big box (except for anything copper, it's like half the price online).
Tractor Supply has a decent amount of items at margin. By that I mean, like 15%. Which is way more than most places.
I know exactly what you mean with Adam. I do like him, and his content, but wow yeah his "brand" of engagement can be exhausting.