Posted on 11/20/2022 11:32:11 AM PST by nickcarraway
I’ve never liked his boring drones. But this writer sounds like a communist trying to tell Springsteen what he should be charging.
It’s called a free market. If someone’s dumb enough to pay thousands of dollars to see a shriveled hippie screech, then that’s on them. Caveat emptor.
Agreed.
Give me a break - Springsteen has been the epitome of limousine liberalism for decades.
Actually, bands always had to make money from touring. The record companies made their money from album sales, so this is the record companies cutting into the touring side of things.
I don’t get this at all. People/Businesses can set whatever price they desire.
Buyers decide if the product is worth the price asked.
It’s called Capitalism, if the tickets don’t sell the show flops, if the tickets sell the show is a monetary success because were willing to pay for the tickets.
Concert tickets could be like bus tickets, show your cellphone ticket image and walk in to the concert hall.
Scalping is preventable.
And so is concert ticket greed.
Yes, you can control yourself, Bruce.
True. But then their songs all ripped off some very good musicians.
I met a singer from a British band a long time ago, and he was complaining how expensive it was, and they had to pay for it.
We have millions of rents subsidized to 30% of income.
We have a president trying to reduce the amount of student debt to $0 for 18 million.
And we have talented pigs on stages reeling in bucks from federally subsidized persons.
I kissed that douche off years ago.
Why anyone would pay to hear a leftist commie crow is beyond me.
Springsteen hasn’t been a “blue collar Everyman” for decades..
Great songwriter and artist, at least through his 1987 LP ‘Tunnel of Love’, not many could match the quality of his work up till then. After 1987, pretty mediocre, but nobody remains at the top forever.
It was laughable to see him onstage with Hillary Clinton in 2016 in Pennsylvania. How low do you have to sink to endorse that witch.
BS has been fabulously wealty since he was like 21 years old. The “working class hero” schtick wore off a long time ago.
My wife and I are 62. We figured it would have taken us about 4 hours to earn enough at our high school jobs to buy tickets to a concert back in 1977. This would have gotten you into most of the A list bands that toured during those days.
$200 a ticket that Bruce speaks of would take a kid making $15 an hour almost 13.5 hours to buy a ticket. And…these acts only play the stadiums. And that adds a whole bunch of expenses.
It’s a shame.
I thought he went downhill after The River. I’ve come to appreciate Nebraska over the years. He did some old folk songs that was an interesting album.
But crap like Born in the USA? No thanks.
I lived near “The Boss” in Rumson NJ before Workingclass Bruce moved to toney Colt’s Neck where millionaires live. Bruce has always been a good image marketer. He probably believed his own BS before “Born In the USA” made him an icon.
My favorite hypocrisy was his album with the Seeger Sings (Pete Seeger was a Communist and played at Obama’s first inauguration). So, millionaire Bruce plays working class songs. How cute.
If people are paying for the tickets, people can afford the tickets. But who would want to see an angry anti-American singer anyway?
Probably could get the same experience for a couple of bucks on ITunes without the obnoxious drunks, dopers, and fools.
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