Spacey Kacey

First the buy it to listen to it. Yes, that was actually a good thing. Most of the time the success of an album is determined by the number of sales in the first week. No one counts streaming (even though they really should). Also up until recently a lot of artists were not getting paid for streaming and if they were, it was the bare minimum. Sorry, but she is an artist. Do you work for free? No. Don’t expect her to either. I honestly don’t give a fuck about how much money she has or “how she can afford it”. If you don’t, don’t expect someone else to. And this isn’t just her. There are so many people involved in making an album-- it’s expensive. They need to make that back somehow.

Next: the tickets. Sorry, not set by her at all. That is set by the promoter who buys them from the stadium for their set cost and then sells them onto the consumer from there. They would see “Taylor Swift” and know that it is going to sell for that price. Also I saw a lot of people over there complaining about cheap tickets being like $150-200. The cheapest I’ve ever paid for her in Australia was $130. It really wasn’t that more expensive here. Besides you then have to break it down to who has to be paid. That $5.95 processing fee or whatever? That’s literally all the ticket sellers make from your tickets.

Merchandise: That is what most artists charge for it. Again, Australian so finding somewhere that ships here without needing to sell a kidney for shipping is rare. And she actually does that. Besides, the only jacket that was over $100 was a waterproof one that usually retails at that anyway. And it’s not like she’s selling shit quality stuff-- it’s all really good. For anyone throwing around the “her fans are 12-20″ argument. Yep. And that’s the demographic with the most disposable income. They don’t usually pay bills, they are the ones who have more money to burn and that is why advertisers market at them in particular.