See Them Live, Pay the Price

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
A recent Wall Street Journal article exposed how big-name musicians are profiting from tickets they provide to ticket brokers, who in turn sell the seats above face value. Meanwhile, New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center has begun adding a $6 parking charge per ticket -- not per vehicle. Jim Farber of the New York Daily News and Gary Bongiovanni of the concert-industry magazine Pollstar tell us about these new wrinkles in the price of concert tickets.

Soundcheck blog: John Schaefer on concert-ticket prices

Weigh in: What do you think of artists scalping their own tickets? Is it wrong or just the free market at work?

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