Ticketmaster-Live Nation approved, but with changes...

Best of luck, Bowery Presents.

"will be banned for 10 years from retaliating against any concert site that signs a ticket-sales contract with a competitor"

What exactly does that mean?

LiveNation is a joke in this town. BP doesn't have anything to worry about.

Very insightful analysis, BV!

seriously, wait to just control C & V

Here's a proposed change for Live Nation - MORE Candlebox show for $32.50!

Yes! This will finally give Live Nation a fighting chance against the evil Todd P corporation.

todd p for life

But in 10 years, they shall have their vengeance! (Rubs hands together.)

despite being one, i blame the democrats. last week screwed a lot of folks and things like this will only continue to bend the majority of us over.

yeah, allen grubman really understands his "Artists".

As always, there's only one place to point the finger: the Jews.

why is American Pop culture so far off base of what is actually good.

Is it different in other countries?

Does this mean you're going to finally stop posting all those Ticketmaster links?

The concentration of evil.

this is horrible. all the horrible news this week has been horrible. corporations, corporations, corporations...

dood that sux

todd Presents: Bowery

eventually LN will own BP

great, mnore government regulation. how are all of you obama lovers liking bombing children in afghanistan?

Boycott!!!!!!!!

"this is horrible. all the horrible news this week has been horrible. corporations, corporations, corporations..."

Yeah, those damn corporations that provide jobs. Damn them. Maybe we should find some more ways to punish them so they can cut some more jobs.

^

The only decent jobs most corps give in the NY area are for the upper echelon of employees. Everyone else gets fucked. And the CEO's who lose millions of dollars get fired and then walk away with million sin compensation. It is time for some parity.

business provides jobs, corporations don't necessarily.

small business employs more people in the US than than the big publicly held corporations do.

Yaaaay, hopefully this will bring about more "convenience fees"...I know I'm excited.

libertarian corporate apologists...

we've heard enough of your bullshit. corporations are not generating US jobs any longer and it's plain to see. sorry your laissez faire "theories" haven't worked out any better than the previous century's state command socialism. just because ayn rand's ideas were simple and elegant to your ears doesn't make them right.

I blame Barney Frank

i blame the teabaggers

MEHrger

"As always, there's only one place to point the finger: the Jews."

As always, you can expect some pussy dipshit coward to hide behind the internet and make offensive comments they wouldn't have the balls to say in public.

I can really only see this benefiting Live Nation if Ticketmaster somehow has a secret army of decent booking agents that nobody knows about...

@Anon. 9:58: I, for one, took that comment as satire.

this sux!

when was the last time anything good happened

Kings of Convenience Charge.

Does anyone know where one can find an intelligent concise analysis of what this merger really means? It would be nice if this site did such a thing instead of re-printing a few lines from a press release.

10:54 wins this thread

eventually live nation will own everything except for punk rock shows in church basements.

fuck these corporations. they aren't creating any jobs. their all about money as always.

2:02, if it wasn't for corporations you wouldn't have been able to make that post, wear the clothes you wear, or listen to the music you listen to. EVERYTHING WE DO has a relationship with one corporation or another. Grow up and get used to it. Or watch a lot of survivor man and man vs. wild and learn how to live in the middle of nowhere.

2:13-what you just wrote is exatly the problem.

"As always, there's only one place to point the finger: the Jews."

"As always, you can expect some pussy dipshit coward to hide behind the internet and make offensive comments they wouldn't have the balls to say in public."

Though my original comment was satirical (spot on, 10:24), if you knew me, you would know that I do not hide behind a computer to Jew bash. I tell my Jew friends on a daily basis how much they suck. Unfortunately, I can't really go out on the street and reply to a Brooklyn Vegan thread so it is what it is. If we were to bump in to each other in person I'd gladly tell you how much you suck for being a Jew.

I blame the facefuckers.

"Though my original comment was satirical (spot on, 10:24), if you knew me, you would know that I do not hide behind a computer to Jew bash. I tell my Jew friends on a daily basis how much they suck. Unfortunately, I can't really go out on the street and reply to a Brooklyn Vegan thread so it is what it is. If we were to bump in to each other in person I'd gladly tell you how much you suck for being a Jew."

Trying to cause trouble by bringing up something that has nothing to do with music, on a website devoted to music isn't satire. So if we were to bump into each other on the street, I'd be glad to tell you how much of a pretentious fuck you are for making offensive comments and using satire as an excuse. You're not Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert. You're not even the lowly Jay Leno.

I would tell you to go fuck yourself, but judging from your inflated sense of self-importance, you probably already have.

This is how I know ticketmaster has lost its fucken mind. An email I recieved from them just tonight

"Beat the Rush for Tickets to See The National"

Oh my goodness. So funny. Beat the Rush! Beat the Rush to see the National!

Whoever thinks this is laissez-faire capitalism you are really fucking retarded. We have a CORPORATIST economy. REAL FREE MARKETS NOW!

I highly recommend this post from the Future of Music Coalition for information and testimonies from the Judiciary Committee hearings:
http://futureofmusic.org/blog/2010/01/25/look-live-nationticketmaster-merger
Thanks for reporting, Brooklyn Vegan.

I blame Omar Minaya.

Oh, and what about those question marks on Sunday's text in the concert poster below? No, that isn't saving a spot for a Smiths reunion or U2 debut on the Coachella stage, it's the way that Yorke presents himself as a solo star, the marquee at his Orpheum concert had the same punctuational flourish.