Music Downloads = Expensive Concerts?

melonman writes "According to an article at BBC News, $250 tickets for the latest Madonna tour are the fault of P2P file sharing. 'Before the advent of illegal downloads, artists had an incentive to underprice their concerts, because bigger audiences translated into higher record sales, Professor Krueger argues. But now, he says, the link between the two products has been severed, meaning that artists and their managers need to make more money from concerts and feel less constrained in setting ticket prices.' And it seems David Bowie agrees. Is 'the fans always get fleeced' the rock industry's equivalent to Moore's Law?"

Re:If Madonna prices it, they will buy...

[tont0r]

I wish i could fix my typo and score a 5

We need concert management!

[Odiumjunkie]

Personally, I blame high ticket prices on people illegally sneaking into concerts and stealing sound from legal concert-goers. I propose a system of Digital Concert Management, where all sound output is encrypted using a closed-source algorythm (and compressed to save bandwidth costs - 128kbs should be fine). Legal concert goers are then given headsets containing a Trusted Concert-Going Chip which decodes the compressed signal and plays back the audio through a complementary set of approved headphones. Of course, discussion of how to decrypt the signal, or even overhearing the encrypted signal without permission from the content producer, would be a criminal offence. Everybody wins!

Logic Error

[richdun]

Music Downloads = Expensive Concerts?

Well if you put it that way, of course it'll be true. This is a common mistake with the assignment operator. What you meant to say was "Music Downloads == Expensive Concerts?" This will test to see if the statement is true, then return.

Is that all?

[Anonymous Coward]

She'd have to do way more than sing for $250...

Madonna and David Bowie have this in common

[Orrin Bloquy]

Sad old women with pretense to British aristocracy.

This seat...

[coinreturn]

For that price you should get the seat in which your view is exclusively the tips of her pubes. Or more accurately - HER seat.

In other news...

[Mateo_LeFou]

Record industry execs announce that all music will be in C major or A minor from now on.

"We hate to do it, 'cause the fans really have enjoyed the other key signatures. But we can't afford black keys on our pianos anymore. Sorry. It's 'cause of piracy. So really it's the listeners' fault."

Please use RIAA radar [magnetbox.com] to avoid giving these tools another cent, ever.

Re:If Madonna prices it, they will buy...

[Paradise Pete]

I wish i could fix my typo and score a 5

Well, if that 5 is a typo and you meant to type a 1, then congratulations, you've succeeded.

Re:If Madonna prices it, they will buy...

[Jamu]

The subsequent decrease in demand for concert tickets will be due to P2P too. Not the high prices. I'm sure they've got another professor that will completely agree. So it must be true.

Re:Right....

[bhsurfer]

Actually I'd venture a guess that the price of fuel has over time contributed to the rise in ticket costs. For example, the Rolling Stones had over 90 semi trucks full of gear they were crossing the country with - that shit adds up. Even a "smaller" act like Rob Zombie will have 15 to 20 trucks full of gear.

And then there is, of course, good old fashioned greed.

Re:Right....

[deadlinegrunt]

No no no - Every time you engage in illegal music downloading, God causes a barrel of oil to get lost in shipping; that's the reason for higher gas prices according to RIAA internal memo of Ms. Mia Bonus...

(What? It's no more absurd than some of the other insanity we hear from this group.)

Re:If Madonna prices it, they will buy...

[Chosen Reject]

What is it with the Germans and they're complete lack of taste in music? First David Hasselhoff and now Madonna. What is wrong with those people?

Re:If Madonna prices it, they will buy...

[Anonymous Coward]

When the prices were low she didn't care about you either.

Yes she did. She said that I must be "her lucky star".

Re:If Madonna prices it, they will buy...

[Asphalt]

If it's not, and you really like Madonna, then stay home and jerk off to the cover of your old vinyl copy of the "Like a Virgin" LP. You'll probably get just as much out of the experience.

True. But at the concert, someone else cleans up the mess.

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At $250 I better get laid by Madonna @ the concert

[doodlebumm]

Really, what concert is worth $250?!?!?!?! Especially with all the crap you have to put up with to go to it - parking, crowds, rude people. The last concert I went to made me realize how much I hate a concert. The guy next to me (and sort of in line with my view of the stage) was standing up dancing around with his butt in my face and flinging his arms in the air almost hitting me a couple of times. I asked him if he was going to stand up the whole concert. He turned to me and said, "Probably!" Well, I have a whistle that is about 135dB (with my fingers in my mouth, not an actual "device") At the end of the next two songs (with gayguy still dancing around) when everyone was screaming at the top of their lungs, I whistled the very loudest I could. They guy then got up and moved, and I stopped whistling. the rest of the concert was much better. Still, having to resort to that made me regret going to concerts.

Re:Madonna was quoted as saying..

[Quaoar]

God, she's right! What the fuck was I thinking downloading her shitty album? I'll never make THAT mistake again...

Whose fault?

[jridley]

Gee, I thought the $250 ticket price was the fault of the artists thinking their presence was worth $20,000 a night, combined with the music being so lame they need 200 support people and 4 million dollars worth of equipment to make the concert be a memorable experience.

They could replace all that money with some talent and still put on shows.

Re:If Madonna prices it, they will buy...

[carlislematthew]

I guess we can agree on one thing - that the guy still *wants* to be creatively viable. :)

Re:Logic Error

[LanMan04]

Music Downloads = Expensive Concerts?
Well if you put it that way, of course it'll be true. This is a common mistake with the assignment operator. What you meant to say was "Music Downloads == Expensive Concerts?" This will test to see if the statement is true, then return.

I'm not sure if that '?' is syntactically correct. Unless you remapped it to mean ';' using a global replace or something....