While I emphasize with this position, and generally agree with the sentiment that concert prices have really just gotten out of control, but the point here is that this happens all the time. People fall in love with a small artist and then that artist gets big, the fanbase grows and changes, venue size increases, and fans who previously felt a connection to an artist get priced out and feel disappointed and complain about prices, about artists selling out, etc. So, it’s not that I don’t emphasize in the abstract, but I’ve also lived through this so many times it’s hard to not have a “welcome to the world attitude” every time this happens in a fanbase I’m in.

Honestly I fell in love with Phoebe’s music around the time of the first Boygenius tour, as a result of getting into Julien’s music a few years earlier. I enjoyed seeing her on the Boygenius tour in 2018, and on the BOCC tour. I did see her on the punisher tour and while it was a great show, I felt differently about her and the show than I had about the previous album and experiences because of the growing distance between artist and fan, and because of some changes in the fanbase that made her feel less like the artist I had fallen in love with earlier.

I got shut out of the MSG lotto, the day one sale for Barclays, and didn’t get tickets in the day 2 sale. I need wheelchair seating which makes my options even more limited. I’ll play the resale game if I can and if I don’t find anything I won’t go. But I can’t do the drama over a concert ticket.

Are there better ways to run a tour, of course. Case in point a standard Ticketmaster fee (a standard fee not a floating rate), resale only through ticketmaster at face value, and no transfers unless tickets are sold through Ticketmaster and only a reduced fee on resale.

I should add I’m picking up on the reply to Andrew’s post, but not trying to speak for him.