'Robbing Them Blind': Live Nation Employees Joked About Fees
Ticketing employees at Live Nation joked about trying to “gouge” people for parking and V.I.P. upgrades at concerts, calling fans “so stupid” for paying the inflated charges and boasting that they were “robbing them blind baby,” according to internal messages released late Wednesday.
The comments, made in a series of private exchanges between two Live Nation employees on Slack, the online messaging system, are exhibits in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, the concert giant that includes Ticketmaster. In that case, filed almost two years ago, the federal government was joined by attorneys general from 39 states and the District of Columbia, asserting that the company illegally maintained a monopoly in the live entertainment industry that resulted in higher ticket prices for consumers and stifled innovation and competition.
Live Nation had argued that the exchanges should be excluded from the evidence in the trial, saying they were “irrelevant” private remarks between two friends at the company that reflected “off-the-cuff banter, not policy, decision-making or facts of consequence” to the case.
The government countered that the exhibits undercut Live Nation’s narrative of excellence and customer service, which the company made in its opening statement this month. The Slack exchanges, a Justice Department lawyer wrote, “provide a candid, contemporaneous look into how they view the prices that Live Nation charges fans for ancillary services at their respective venues.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/arts/music/live-nation-ticketmaster-trial-fees-slacks.html
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Death to Live Nation!!!
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Paying any amount of parking or VIP is insane. Fuck these clowns. 
