Ticketmaster and Live Nation may soon be joining forces to create a single ticket brokering conglomerate which will undoubtedly be bent on world domination.

While maybe the future isn’t that bleak, this really is something that should concern fans of live music. Ticket prices are going to rise, and you can bet that the best tickets - the tickets that these companies claim they sell to fans - won’t be found the day of sale. They’ll instead be found in the secondary ticket market (mainly TicketsNow, which Ticketmaster owns) marked up at a huge premium.

Though, given the myriad of problems during the Phish onsale last week, this could be somehow for the better. At least with Ticketmaster running the show I know that I’m out of luck in the first 5 minutes.

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