• teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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    The thing is, we don’t need concert promoters, or ticketmaster. All we need is an empty field on private land with electricity.

    Then get to work on playing that new video game multiplayer, mario brothers. But that’s neither here nor there.

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      All we need is an empty field on private land with electricity.

      Which is increasingly the domain of rich people only. Especially when you’re talking areas able to accommodate larger concerts without breaking a bunch of public order laws.

      And that’s not even counting all the logistics and equipment and legal bullshit etc etc that ALSO costs a fortune and a lot of manpower.

      The economic and political elite have been very thorough in their efforts to make evading exploitation a HUGE hassle if not literally impossible for the their victims, the rest if humanity.

      Then get to work on playing that new video game multiplayer, mario brothers

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        There are a lot of working people with land, myself for one. I would host one. In the woods here, do it on a full moon. We have a hands off government here.

        Would be a smaller one here, but rural places would appreciate the cash influx. And entry fees will more than pay for all of those logistics.

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    There are plenty of great bands playing smaller venues. As for Roger Walters and Radiohead… I’m sure they’ll be fine financially speaking.

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      Hell yeah, I was coming in to say this.

      So many great bands (in my area) coming in for a fraction of the price at a much more intimate setting.

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      Yeah so many fantastic small bands charging a lot less for tickets and they’re much easier to find now than in the past. My favorite artist right now charged like $40 for tickets to their most recent tour

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        How about we bring artists to private land, invite people to show up and pay an entry fee, and play? There is no reason we need to relegate ourselves to these corporate venues in megacities.

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          Congrats you have invented Coachella

          The issue isn’t venue price it’s that demand is much higher than supply. Venues can price gouge you when you go to a concert for a huge artist because they know people will pay. A concert organized on BLM land in the desert will still have to have organizers

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            Does black lives mattee have a lot of concert orgsnizers?

            Obviously though you don’t use government land for concerts that’s crazy, then you have government rules. If there is more demand then there is Supply then you increase the supply, there is no shortage of land to throw concerts on in this country.

            And you might say what about the big pop stars, well forget them they fucking suck and we should all hate them.

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              BLM = bureau of land management = public land. Anyone can use public land for a wide variety of purposes as long as you clean up after yourself including hosting music festivals

              When people complain about high concert prices they are mostly talking about tickets for the huge artists

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                Ha ha, I know, which is to say, I had no idea black lives matter was brought into the Bureau of Land Management. Well good for them.

                But working on Federal Land you are still subject to federal agents that have virtually Limitless authority. Given the recent trajectory of the government I would not advise it.