Are there any musicians who have taken Kurt Cobain's stance on ticket prices to heart and sold really cheap tickets to their concerts when they could sell them for much higher profit margins? If so, shouldn't these artists get RESPECT for being cool?

>>127258502 (OP)
> If so, shouldn't these artists get RESPECT for being cool?
yeah i'm sure the scalperbots would really respect any artists that gave them such high profit margins

I respect all artists that go into debt after a tour because they used all their money to build cool sets and keep their ticket prices low. Yes they do exist. No I'm not telling you which artists!

>>127258502 (OP)
All live events need to go back to being pay-at-the-door or tickets can only be sold at nearby stores like they were in the 50s and 60s.
Digital payment is such a scam.

yeah dude, today's artists should just sell 10 million physical units of album and buy gas for a dollar a gallon to keep touring cheap just like Kurt did!

>>127258502 (OP)
this is only a problem for people with mainstream slop pleb taste

>>127258502 (OP)
Kurt had punk rock ethics.

>>127258932
>need to have an app on your phone for tickets
>get frisked and metal detected

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>>127259257
holy shit i hate the world

>>127258502 (OP)
The guy from Cure

>>127258863
>Yes they do exist. No I'm not telling you which artists!
bbno$ is one.

>>127259246
In his last years, he started hating punk rock ethics, as he became estranged from the whole Olympia movement of purists who rejected any kind of deal with a big label.
I think he called them something akin to losers who whine because they could never write anything appealing to a big audience, so they dress that in a holier-than-thou 'punk ethics' attitude to mask their lack of talent

>>127259257
I hate hate HATE how there has to be an APP for everything

>>127258502 (OP)
no. no one who cares about that is big anymore. and the small artists are already cheap.

i remember wanting to go see radiohead when i was a kid and the tickets were like $150 to get in the door. that was after in rainbows and pay what you want, ironically. fucking hypocrites.

>>127258502 (OP)
Would you believe it, the only musician now who follows in the footsteps of Kurt...

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/04/kid-rock-progressive-hero-why-hes-right-to-charge-20-per-ticket/275192/

I'm respecting them so hard right now

mgk sold 5k $12 tickets yesterday and announced a free concert as well. Maybe Bob Dylan was right in picking him as the savior of music. Kurt probably would have picked him as his protege.

All the respect to those that keep it real

Charging for meet and greets is also hella gay btw

>>127263584
Meet and greets are embarrassing for both parties, I don't even know why they exist

Legends

How much do tickets even cost these days?

$5 ticket please

If Cobain lived today what would his ticket price be?

>>127260616
>I think he called them something akin to losers who whine because they could never write anything appealing to a big audience, so they dress that in a holier-than-thou 'punk ethics' attitude to mask their lack of talent
was he talking to a mirror?

>>127258502 (OP)
One of main principles of FUGAZI. In fact they were actually so cool that rightist were performing insane mental gymnastic to separate FUGAZI's music from their politics so they could justify listening to them. It was hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvYMALs3ELM

>too much heroin in his system
>magic bullet
>no fingerprints on the gun
>last four lines of the "suicide note" were forged
>courtney's practice sheet
>kurt was going to divorce courtney
>courtney destroying the alleged rome "suicide note"
>kurt's death was never given a proper investigation. seattle police ruled it a suicide within hours
>courtney was ex-lovers with the medical examiner who examined kurt's body
>kurt's body was cremated almost immediately and the shotgun was melted down at courtney's request
>kurt was starting a relationship with kristen pfaff, courtney's bassist, during the last months of his life. pfaff ended up dead of an "overdose" just months after kurt
>hole's album was released days after kurt's death, making his suicide the perfect promotional tool for courtney
>no one close to kurt ever claimed he was suicidal
>courtney has never sued tom grant

>>127271346
I'm a rightoid and I love Fugazi.

Was Nirvana a political band?

Bands get made fun of for selling cheap tickets.

I wouldn't pay more than $20 for a ticket

If you're a major act selling tickets for $20, scalpers will buy them and resell them to rich people for $160 anyway. I'd rather the artist get that money (to the extent ticket sales actually end up with the artists -- but that's a separate issue)

>>127258502 (OP)
Kanye west when he was doing his Vultures listening party last year. Everything was $20 the t-shirts, the hoodies, the shoes, the tickets.
I'm not even a hip hop fan (I just work at the arena) but yeah I had to give him some respect for doing that. Super cool thing to do imo. In his defense he's been triple cancelled at this point and the stadium was less than half full so maybe he just needed to drop prices to get people to come but still was cool to see in the world of $200 tickets, $100 sweaters and $60 tshirts

>>127271315
No, he was already a rockstar with mainstream success and was feeling guilty about it. And I think he got the cold shoulder treatment either from Calvin Johnson or some of those from the underground scene. He got pissed about it and wrote that he won't give one single dime to the punk rock larpers who couldn't write a good song for shit

There's even a police incident, in which Courtney went to Olympia to "kill Calvin" because he upset Kurt. I think Calvin got a court restraining order against her.

Kurt was kino

>>127258502 (OP)
The Cure were like that a couple years ago. They threatened not to play at several venues because they were going to overcharge for t shirts, they capped the tour shirt prices at $25 and the tickets somewhere below $100 iirc

>>127281741
*as in the best tickets would be that much, I think it was closer to $60 for general admission which is really good for a band of their stature