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‘A death sentence for music’: the battle for America’s last Live Nation-free city
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You should really read up on how they operate.
Here's just one hypothetical based off available reporting, court cases, and leaked documents:
Artist A has a history of performing at independent Portland venues but also tours the country and therefore has to use LN venues and TM services.
When LN opens their Portland location, Artist A will have to either start using the LN venue, or find that the rest of their tour has suddenly run into financial issues with LN pricing and rebate schemes.
So Artist A switches to Portland LN venue, and magically those issues start to go away.
And that's just the artist side, LN pulls variations of this monopoly abuse with local venues who refuse to Ticket Master, or sign with LN.
I'm not even doing their criminal behavior justice and the real examples are significantly worse then what I quickly typed out. This will only harm artists, local venues, and Portland, if allowed.
I understand how they operate. I gave a personal example of how almost nobody goes to local Live Nation venues because of the expense when there's a bunch of cheap, local shows in similarly-sized venues.
Does it mean "Artist A" doesn't come to our city? Yeah, who gives a shit?
Losing one artist isn't the implication....it's losing all your independent venues because they won't financially survive being blacklisted by every artist that hopes to tour anywhere else because LN is a monopoly...
So goodbye independent venues and hello to exponentially higher prices, because that's what monopolies do...