ferricoxide<p><span>Speaking of </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/TicketBastard" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TicketBastard</a><span>:<br><br>I've been to one event, already, this year, that wasn't ticketed through them: was ticketed through </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/EventTim" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EventTim</a><span>.<br><br>Going to a show next month — a foam party (what a throwback to my 20s that is) that's also ticketed through </span><a href="https://www.eventim.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>EventTim</span></a><span>.<br><br>And I just bought tickets to an October [show]() that's ticketed through </span><a href="https://shotgun.live/en" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>ShotGun</span></a><span>.<br><br>So, maybe </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/TicketMaster" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TicketMaster</a><span>'s finally starting to lose some of the stranglehold they have on this area? I mean, before </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/Echostage" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Echostage</a><span> and </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/Soundcheck" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Soundcheck</a><span> were bought by </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/Insomniac" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Insomniac</a><span> (who long ago sold a significant stake to </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/LiveNation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LiveNation</a><span>, events there), ticketing was only very occasionally through TicketBastard. Frequently, tickets were sold through </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/EventBrite" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EventBrite</a><span>, </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/TicketFairy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TicketFairy</a><span> and a few others. Nice to see that other venues are trying to break away and don't seem to be losing the ability to book artists because of it?<br><br>RE: </span><a href="https://evil.social/notes/aabds8spstke73x3" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://evil.social/notes/aabds8spstke73x3</a></p>