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your first concert

your last concert

your next concert

they saw this tiny band that was getting hype, noticed that they were all broke and starving, and whipped out the world's most fucked up contract in their faces. your creativity in exchange for like, fucking medical and a salary. you forget that they're all disabled (apart from ray afaik)... they were also poor, borderline homeless new jersey punks. of course they signed. anybody would.

the fans have no idea how much warner is to blame for these ticket prices, not just ticketmaster. this isn't the band being greedy. they're not greedy people. their normal clothes (which are repeated almost every show) are falling apart on b stage, they play budget brand guitars, they don't go on bougie vacations or show off luxury goods on social media, they go to museums and parks. they even fly on public planes instead of a private jet. gerard has netflix/dark horse money, yeah, but they only really seem to spend it on books, art supplies, decent luggage, and a few nicer wardrobe items they repeatedly use until they wear out. so it cannot be THAT profitable for the band.

In the era where streaming is how most people consume music, almost any and all profit essentially has to come from touring revenue, and there’s a lot of complicated math that goes on behind the scenes for most tours to even be able to break even. The Long Live tour is a MASSIVE undertaking with a huge crew and a ton of moving set pieces and special effects so that’s gonna already cost a fortune, and as much as this band is Warner’s golden child, there’s also going to eventually be a limit as to how much financial support they’re willing to lend to a tour like this before they’re going to expect things like ticket and merch sales to fill in the rest of the expense report and push the tour into the green. I don’t know what artist cuts from tours like this look like, I’m more used to mid-size touring bands, but I do know that for bigger/TM-controlled venues the artist usually sees 50% or less of revenue from ticket sales, and we don’t know how much of their own money they’ve dumped into this, so there’s a very real chance that this band isn’t actually seeing a huge turn of profits off of ticket sales.

Like a rat in a cage

“OH MY GOD”

“MOM I DID IT”

“I KILLED HIM”

“I ???fooled??? THEM ALL”

“????????????????????”

wild eyed “AND I KILLED HIM”

screaming

hysterical laughing and screaming

“I KNOW YOU’D BE SO ???proud???”