This is the fascinating headline for an article in the Observer (The New Review, 18.08.2013) where Music Week editor Tim Ingham takes on columnist and music writer Jude Rogers over the thorny issues of ticket pricing, touting, the secondary market and fans ..... with " thousands of tickets being bought then sold for huge profits via online resale platforms. This 'secondary market' has become its very own parasitic industry: technologically endowed racketeers snap up all the best seats, freezing genuine music lovers out of any chance of paying face value"Well worth a read http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/17/are-gig-tickets-too-cheap
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