If you actually opened your eyes you would see what was really going on! The future of making money in the record industry is no longer in selling records, a few years ago it was file swapping etc they were seeking to outlaw and they failed and now have moved on to touts, This is because they simply don’t sell enough records and cds to make money, the future is in live performances, and the big bucks are in these concerts! Why do you think Mick Jagger checks out of the OAP home every year to go round the world again?
A band used to make 80p in every £1 worth of sales of a record, if you sold a million records that would be ok, now they make about 20p in every pound and are lucky if the sell 30,000 If they did they would be number one. This is because of falling sales and more people downloading legally for a few pence or illegally for free.
As a result the only way to make money in the music industry is live performance and this is why they want to outlaw the resale of tickets as they want to secure a monopoly on the profits from the sales. If a law was passed within 12 months ticket prices would go up as they seek to increase there revenue.
Do you really think the likes of Glastonbury, T in the Park and Take That concerts sold out because touts bought all the tickets? They sell out anyway. Where the 250,000 people who failed to get Glastonbury tickets, where they all touts flawed by Melvin Braggs Nazi state system?
The fact is these things will sell out either way, and if the promotors have there way even if you really really want to go and will pay over the odds you will no longer be able to buy off the touts online and will have to take your chances outside a venue as the law would be as enforceable there as it is a football matches were it is illegal yet there’s still 100s of touts.
If a few touts go and buy 20 or 30 tickets to sell online this is nothing in the grand scheme of things. If you want to blame someone then blame the BBC, yep that’s right the BBC!
Since the Radio 1 stage and the live coverage by the BBC have been allowed in to various festivals, so has the demand for tickets increased. When all you middle class kids watched all the hippies, dropouts, pot heads, e heads, scallies and lefties all having so much fun together getting wrecked on TV you all decided you wanted to come too! Now the whole of middle England wants to go wound up in to a frenzy by one dimensional djs on radio 1. The same radio 1 who banned such cultural gems as The Sex pistols, A Day in the Life 1967 by the Beatles, Lola 1970 by the Kinks, Relax 1984 by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and even Honky Tonk Angel 1973 by Cliff Richard?
Anyway this blatant morally corrupt few at the top, true capitalist of Maggie’s third Reich want to make the Rich Richer Themselves and the OK off you poorer by having exclusive rights to sell you tickets at inflated prices.
Back to that OAP Mick Jagger in the Rolling Stones who sell there own tickets for hundreds of pounds, exclusive clubs you must join to buy the best most inflated price tickets and if you are super rich there’s always VIP tickets available for thousands of pounds, that’s what you get if you let the promoters have there way.
They know this and they are running a very successful campaign to secure there capital, all this rubbish about the evil touts is there attempt to pull the wool over your eyes, the government know this, that is why they rejected the promoters proposals saying it was unfair and they should not be allowed to do it.
Even Glastonbury tickets shot up from £120 to £145 despite the extra 20,000 tickets this year and it will keep going up as there is so much demand and they know people will pay it as they have watched you doing it on ebay for years and now they want control of it.
If you think that our culture of outdoor music should be shaped by the likes of Meanfiddler and there private army Stuart security scum The ones that look like storm troopers in armed vans watching your every move then you carry on believing the hype.
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