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“Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.” -
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen HawkingComment
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I take it that was a typo.
T-shirts have always been a fucking racket as long as I can remember.
Most of the time I don't buy one but did on the last tour - fuck what's another $40 when you are already at $2000....
I'm actually wearing it just now and my objection is that it's shit.
The quality is pretty poor and the cut and design not great. I know it's a pissy thing but it annoys me that a dumb run of 20 Fruit of the Loom T-shirts Von spent 20 minutes designing and setting up over the interweb for the DDLR website was much better quality. I can't remember the exact figures but it was around $10 a piece on those tiny numbers.
As I said you expect to get ripped off a bit but they are pushing their luck with this shit.Last edited by Seshmeister; 10-05-2010, 05:14 PM.Comment
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As far as the ticket prices go personally if I go to see a band live these days and they charge over £30($45) I feel completely justified in pirating their album off the internet.
It's just a different business model, recorded music is now a promotion tool for live performances whereas it used to be the opposite.Comment
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Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee RothComment
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Not comparing the show itself, but I saw KISS and Maiden this past year, and the production was over the top, (not in a bad way) and top prices were around $80 in the NY market. I paid around $125 for VH last tour in the NY market. This was from Ticketmaster, not the secondary market like StubHub. So they can lower the prices IMO.When the shit hits the fan, close your mouth and duck.Comment
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Prices will be at the exact point where the spreadsheets give the maximum profit.
If they said 1000 fans at $1000 in each town then that's what we would get.
The interesting thing is that publicity=$$$ so will the relations in the band still be seen as so delicate that they can't risk interviews even though they basically mean more money?Comment
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen HawkingComment
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Looks like they gonna save the business once again!Comment
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Why the hell should VH tour... they just announced new striped beanies and ties..."If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”Comment
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When Led Zeppelin released In Through The Out Door, it single handedly dragged people into record stores, people who then also grabbed anything else that was on sale. By and large, that is considered to have saved the then failing record industry in the late 1970s. So using that as a yardstick, just out of curiosity, when did Van Halen "save the business" the first time, if ever?Last edited by chefcraig; 10-06-2010, 09:20 AM.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen HawkingComment
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Well, maybe When It's Love revived the casio business.Comment
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