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?"

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OB Bill Hicks quote

[Tony]

"Because you know if you play New Kids on the Block albums backwards they sound better. "Oh come on, Bill, they're the New Kids, don't pick on them, they're so good and they're so clean cut and they're such a good image for the children." Fuck that! When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who fucking ROCKED! I don't care if they died in puddles of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his fucking HEART!"

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

[kimvette]

I don't know about you, but I'd pay $250 to see Pink Floyd play again (if Gimour would get over himself and just tour - the rest of the band would go in a shot. Hell, even Waters pretty much admitted he was a bit of an ass between Animals and The Final Cut), and they hit it big WAY before my time.

Madonna? Rolling Stones? I wouldn't pay a dime to go to either concert. There are very few bands I'm interested in seeing live.