If Jesus, Pavarotti and Sinatra all came back to life as a singing and dancing comedy trio, I still wouldn't pay anywhere near that to see 'em.
That's fuckin' crazy - and AOC doesn't like it...
Millions of Taylor Swift fans swarmed Live Nation’s Ticketmaster website on Tuesday to try to score seats for her first tour in five years, causing periodic outages and long online waits as some tickets were quickly posted for resale for thousands of dollars.
The ticket-selling site said in a statement that “historically unprecedented demand” for Swift’s 52-date United States tour had seen millions of people attempt to buy presale tickets, which had caused “intermittent issues” that the company was “urgently” working to resolve. Fans elsewhere reported waiting in online queues for up to eight hours, and many finding they were too late to purchase tickets, which cost between $49 and $449 each. meanwhile, back in LaLaLand, AOC chimed in:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Ticketmaster of monopolizing the ticket sales industry on Tuesday after the company's site crashed as Taylor Swift fans attempted to buy pre-sale tickets to the singer's upcoming "Eras" tour.Ocasio-Cortez took the opportunity to voice longstanding concern about the 2010 merger of Ticketmaster, the ticket sales and distribution company, and Live Nation, the events promoter and venue operator, into Live Nation Entertainment.
"Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it's merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in. Break them up," the Democratic congresswoman from New York tweeted.
Love her or hate her, the woman is entertaining. AOC that is...
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If you are thinking of getting something a little 'special'
for a special someone, won't you consider at least looking
at some of the jewelry my wife makes?
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$22,000, for the ticket and then, what, $5000 'convenience fee' for the pleasure and honor and right to even BUY a f'ing ticket? NO THANK YOU. Maybe one or two bucks, but anything more for 'convenience fee' is theft, robbery.
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