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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Really? Do you know how much of the money the riaa raised goes to the artists? None. Not a penny. What stats do you base this laughable idea that labels charge high prices for gigs to make up for piracy losses? You wouldn't just be talking out of your arse would you?
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In most cases the record labels don't have any say over the price of concert tickets. These days there are more and more artists who do give up some of of their concert revenue to the labels, but in most cases the price is set by the artist and promoter. Obviously if it is a big show with a huge stage, tons of lighting and effect etc it costs more to put that show on so the tickets are going to cost more, but when Neil Young comes to my local 1000 seat theater and charges $250 a seat it is because he wants to charge $250 a seat not because his record label is setting the prices.