I think some people try to over-credit Colbert and Stewart. They do not do their shows every night to teach the youth anything. Youth should already be taught that they are very capable of coming to their own conclusions about any topic. Stewart and Colbert go out there to make jokes about politicians, celebrities, news media, or anything else worth going after to make a joke out of. They show the hypocrisy in politics, and the irony in cable news. That's what they do. They aren't telling any kid what is and isn't important. If people want to be up-tight and worried about national security, then tune into a news channel. These guys are on Comedy Central for a reason, for comedy. How they do it is up to them, who responds and enjoys their style of comedy is not.
I think it's bull crap. I went to two Green Day shows, one last year and another the year before that. All of their tickets were under $50 (unless you were unlucky to be one of the few that got ripped off on ebay). They still made a whole bunch of money on their tour. I think it was something like $93 million.
It's not the problem of P2P for higher ticket prices, it's greed. If artists actually played music because they liked doing it, instead of trying to get millions upon millions in return, there wouldn't be an issue.
Green Day played three US tours and two world tours over the past two years. They could have made a lot more money had they charged more, but instead they kept the prices low and they got a lot of people out to their concerts. A lot of that money came back to them when they put a live DVD out. People knew the kind of show they put on, and went out and bought the DVD. It all worked out. They're still millionares, and millions of people got to see them.
It's pathetic that an artist would charge so much for a ticket for people to see them. Just plain sad. Then these people have the nerve to complain about file sharing and it's lack of decency..blah blah.
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I think some people try to over-credit Colbert and Stewart. They do not do their shows every night to teach the youth anything. Youth should already be taught that they are very capable of coming to their own conclusions about any topic. Stewart and Colbert go out there to make jokes about politicians, celebrities, news media, or anything else worth going after to make a joke out of. They show the hypocrisy in politics, and the irony in cable news. That's what they do. They aren't telling any kid what is and isn't important. If people want to be up-tight and worried about national security, then tune into a news channel. These guys are on Comedy Central for a reason, for comedy. How they do it is up to them, who responds and enjoys their style of comedy is not.
HAHAH!! Oh man, that really made me crack up.
I think it's bull crap. I went to two Green Day shows, one last year and another the year before that. All of their tickets were under $50 (unless you were unlucky to be one of the few that got ripped off on ebay). They still made a whole bunch of money on their tour. I think it was something like $93 million. It's not the problem of P2P for higher ticket prices, it's greed. If artists actually played music because they liked doing it, instead of trying to get millions upon millions in return, there wouldn't be an issue. Green Day played three US tours and two world tours over the past two years. They could have made a lot more money had they charged more, but instead they kept the prices low and they got a lot of people out to their concerts. A lot of that money came back to them when they put a live DVD out. People knew the kind of show they put on, and went out and bought the DVD. It all worked out. They're still millionares, and millions of people got to see them. It's pathetic that an artist would charge so much for a ticket for people to see them. Just plain sad. Then these people have the nerve to complain about file sharing and it's lack of decency..blah blah.
omg, i live like two hours away from the pope. hell yes!!