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MegaAscension t1_j5qiog5 wrote

Ticketmaster owns nearly all the large venues. Ticketmaster also own merch distribution companies. They also own artist promotion companies. So if an artist cuts ties with Ticketmaster, they get locked out of really everything. Ticketmaster has a whopping 300+ subsidiaries. Link to everything they own- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1335258/000119312511050243/dex211.htm

They also make up 89% of ticket revenue shares.

Artists don't have much of an option.

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KazkaFaron t1_j5qgitf wrote

dude space mountain was so fucking awesome, it's like a combo black crazy water slide + rollercoaster, so metal.

i went there after it became star wars land and that ride was lame as shit, like ok, a shitty indoor coaster, sounds effects and projectors? congrats.

and the fact that they made that building stop spinning??? madness

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Forgotmyaccount1979 t1_j5qe81q wrote

I got to listen, yesterday, to a coworker describe in very unfamiliar terms that they were upset about a "noodle company" changing their product/a flavor of their product to no longer be named Oriental.

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He did not buy the product, he did not use it (he didn't even know exactly what company, had just "heard about it"), yet somehow this was something to be angry about.

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I remain confused how that changes the world for him.

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