Modest Mouse is coming to Halifax, so I go to buy tickets, only to find them sold out. How discouraging… then I look some more and there are loads of people selling them for 4x to 12x the original ticket price all over the place and they’ve got several tickets to sell !!! Suggestion: If you’re not fans, don’t buy the GD tickets you money grubbing little whores.
—SSGlovesMM
This article appears in Jun 25 – Jul 1, 2009.
Free market, dude. If you were a true fan like you say you are then should have no problem paying 12x’s the ticket price.
“Free market, dude. If you were a true fan like you say you are then should have no problem paying 12x’s the ticket price.”
Why did you even bother posting that? So if ticket’s were say $30… $30×12= $360 for a ticket. I’m sure all the true fans would have no problem with that price. OP – sorry for your luck. Cranky – you’re a fucking idiot.
They put on a shitty live show anyway…not missing much
Who the fuck listens to Modest Mouse?
I heard they were a Mickey Mouse band.
Obviously, there are true fans out there willing to pay the price or they’d be playing to a near empty venue.
Who? Never heard of them. Must be one of those going-no-where indie bands from someone’s damp basement.
I get the Ardmore will be jumpin’ that weekend, then. *barf* Just for kicks, I will check them out on utube and render my verdict on their cool/not cool status.
Fuck you people and your smarmy somments. The OP is absolutely right, and although I love Modest Mouse, I had no intentions of going to this show so I was unaffected. Purchasing tickets with the intent of jacking up the price to screw over actual fans is a bastard move.
Cranky, would you pay that for a show (of any variety) you really wanted to see? Based on your comment I would guess that you have no love for live music, or possibly any form of art – however – if something like this happened to you, I would love to see you shrug your shoulders, grin, and walk away calmly, saying, “well, that’s the free market for you.”
Andy, Modest Mouse have been around for 15+ years, have sold millions of albums and played for millions of people at some of the biggest shows on earth, and and have belonged to several major labels (read: not indie). They may have started in someone’s damp basement (name me a band that hasn’t), but they have most certainly gone somewhere.
Bastard move, plan and simple. Legitimate bitch.
What is ridiculous to me is that the BANDS let this happen. If people are willing to pay 10x the ticket price, then they should release tickets at that price and sell them themselves to catch the profit. I would be pissed if I was a musician getting a cut of ticket sales but my cut was only 1/10 what it could be.
Op, I totally feel your pain. I could have written this bitch myself.
It takes every ounce of effort NOT to send these assholes hate mail on a regular basis.
I’m fucking bummed to the max that I’m missing this show and there is no way I can afford these jacked up prices. It Sucks hardcore and everyday that I look for tickets I become more and more saddened.
Wait five years and they’ll be playing at your nearest Holiday Inn.
I’ve seen Sarah McLaughlin at Pub Flamingo for 5 bucks and the Rebecca Cohn for $30. When she played the Metro Centre for whatever it was, I passed. My entertainment dollar is very precious to me, I don’t just consider the dollar cost but the time as well, which is why I rarely waste my money on ‘blockbuster’esque movies. Same goes for live music. I’d rather pay 10-15 bucks to see Iron Giant kick ass or 20-30 to see Kathleen Edwards at the Seahorse than 30+ to see ANYONE. Seriously. $75 for Kiss? Pass. I’d pay $30, maybe. Modest Mouse? Never heard of them. Pass. I would probably pay an exhorborant sum to see Marilyn Manson. Probably 75, max. You’re right, I just don’t like art. No wait, there were those Symphony Nova Scotia tickets I got that time. damn. Geez, and then theres the AGNS membership. Frig. And going to Musee des Beaux Arts every fall that I visit Montreal.
Maybe I just don’t have any sympathy for people that are in love with bands who screw their fans by farming out their ticket sales to the highest bidder.
Unscrupulous business practices abound these days in many businesses and especially in live show ticket sales. ‘Bleed ’em dry’ seems to be the rule of the day.
Perhaps terminating online purchasing and restricting sales to minimal numbers per order in person at the outlets would help diminish the problem.
Today’s technology makes it easier than ever to be a scalper, so much so that even the ticket agents are in on the game! Technological progress indeed!
Bands are rarely, if ever, behind the setting of ticket prices. Ticketmaster, and equivalent distributors are chosen by higher powers because they have the ability to effectively sell and distribute tickets to large numbers of people. That such services can be taken advantage of is no fault of the band, and is not their problem to deal with. I don’t know about you, but possible future difficulties in attaining tickets has yet to affect my like or dislike of a certain band.
Sorry to question your affection for the arts, but your initial comment made you sound like a douche. You can surely understand that wanting to see a band, only to be thwarted by artificially high prices is a huge piss off.
MrMan, I guess I am suggesting that perhaps the bands should care and make it their problem. Not because they care about fans (which they should) but because they are missing out on money. Given the bitching that goes on about illegal downloads taking coin from their purse, I would think bands would be all over this. All they have to do is set up a website, or sell through the concert venue’s website, or through their record label’s website.
Cranky, How long did you spend on Google looking up names of artsy names to drop, you fuckwit?
Was there a limit on the amount of tickets one could buy?
I know you could just go back and buy more, but some concerts ahve ticket limits so you can’t scalp the tickets later on….people used to do that back in the day worse than now. They’d wait in line for like, NKOTB tickets — buy 50 and then sell them at insane mark ups and all these little kids couldn’t convince their parents to pay scalper’s prices and they didn’t get to see the show.
Apparently only the rich are true fans. I guess. wtf?
I’d love to see Modest Mouse, but I guess I’m not a true fan….big whoop. The only person I’d ever pay $250+ to see is David Bowie, like that’ll ever happen. *sob*
I have seen the price of tickets DROP outside the Metro Centre for a show by the scalpers…when the show has started, & they can’t find a buyer(s).
So you may not be out of luck…show up close to show time & you just might luck into a scalper trying to cut their loss !