As long as I’ve been attending concerts, I’ve been baffled by the aggressively adversarial and predatory “fuck you” relationship that ticket sellers and venues (and some artists as well) have with their patrons. It’s gotten much worse over the years* with e.g. the rapacious Ticketmaster inflation and surcharges, but I’ve always found concert-going to be an anxiety-inducing mixed bag, and however much much I might enjoy the actual performance, can never shake the feeling of overall hostility to my experience from the concert-making complex. This is just one of many ways that the industry makes live shows unpleasant. It doesn’t have to be this way.
*Although I suppose getting murdered by Hell’s Angels security isn’t so much of an issue anymore.
