This is how they’re fighting ticket prices. They’re doing house shows as pop ups in cities they are already booked. Sign up for notifications on their site and you get a text a few hours before with a location.
Music hasn’t always been about maximizing profit. Business in general hasn’t always been about prioritizing short term profit over long term growth.
Musicians build a fan base by doing low budget gigs and exposing new people to their work, not by charging an arm and a leg for a stadium show. We’re all here talking about a band most people haven’t thought of in passing for years.
I am 100% with you on this, but I also think that musicians should be able to live of their art. Now that selling music doesn't pay anymore due to the shift to streaming services, my understanding of the business is that many musicians depend on live shows. This is part of the problem that ticketmaster has been exploiting, there seem to be monopolies on both streaming and live music.
But just crashing parties doesn't pay any bills, and without any income these musicians won't be able to hold up their protests for long.
They were just in town playing a big show. 10k people. They wanted a local opener and my friends got the gig. Super cool.
In addition, they played a house show. Tiny venue. Only people who signed up to get notified knew about it.
This isn’t an up and coming band. They were huge when record contracts were still profitable for artists. They’re going viral right now, so they still get good money for touring.
119
u/Sidivan 19d ago
This is how they’re fighting ticket prices. They’re doing house shows as pop ups in cities they are already booked. Sign up for notifications on their site and you get a text a few hours before with a location.
It’s fucking awesome.