Ticketmaster fees are horrible, and we’re all about bands using clever means to combat the monolith, but The String Cheese Incident is doing it wrong.
Looking to broaden their respective reaches, Groupon and Live Nation have huddled close in some small, dark corner of the internet to spawn GrouponLive, a new “online ticketing deals marketplace”.
Irving Azoff, CEO of Ticketmaster: “They were afraid of Napster, they were afraid of iTunes; The business resists change…Basically the record industry sat around and tried to protect an old model; Yeah, suing your customer is a bad idea.” [All Things D]
