Rolling Stones is doing a "Bigger Bang Tour 2007":
Great!
Rolling Stones if coming back to Europe and Copenhagen:
Cool!
Rolling Stones is charging 1500 DKK (roughly $250 USD / €200 Euro) per ticket:
WHAT!
That's it. I am personally going to
BOYCOTT the Copenhagen concert and you should too. Read on and see why.
The previous "Bigger Bang" tour grossed the Rolling Stones a staggering
$437 million USD. Thats roughly 2.6 billions DKK!!! This amount was made over a period of about 14 months. Do the math. On top of that Rolling Stones is channeling their income through
The Netherlands, where they only have to pay 1.5% in tax.
For a long time, well since the Internet became widely available, the Music Industry have been frustrated and argued that they were losing money to online piracy. Whatever is true in this respect, does not make it fair to boost ticket-prices to the amounts the Stones are asking. I mean, they have made a ton of millions. More than they can ever spend.
My take is, if youre selling out like that - you're not a rock 'n roll band.
Give back to the true fans what they deserve. I demand fair ticket prices for a start!
Speaking of the upcoming concert in Copenhagen, tickets in the nosebleeds starts at $100 USD (650,- DKK). Thats outrageous in so many ways I don't know where to start.
To make matters worse, $100 USD was the price for the BEST tickets last time they visited Copenhagen in 2003. Can they really double the price in just 4 years. I think not. It is way beyond reason.
What's your take on this..?
Due to my frustration about this matter, I decided to double-post this in Danish as well.