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Originally posted by paul1000
Think again ... pre-CDR and gnutella(kazaa et al.) days, I can remember paying $30-50 for a great front row seat at almost any concert ...
Now that same $30-$50 might pay for your parking at a concert.
Artists have seen HUGE losses in record sales, so most have beefed up their fees for live performances over 250%, in turn raising the price of concert tickets, to try to subsidize for the loss of revenues(but still feeling the crunch).  (very similar to this biz ... pre 1998 we all made money very easily ... now we work three times as hard to make half as much)
I am involved quite heavily in the recording industry, and have represented several big recording artists in my mainstream endeavours, so I am not just blowing smoke up everybody's ass.
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Thats called artisits getting greedy. They only make so many cents on each album sold while yes its not just a bit of change in the end if its a sucessful artist its hardly what they make through live shows. Thats where there money has always been in live shows. Records are just a means of advertising that they get paid for.