Bruce Springsteen defends selling his tickets via Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing model
"Why shouldn’t that money go to the guys that are going to be up there sweating three hours a night for it?" Bruce Springsteen says

While it’s the sale of tickets to Taylor Swift’s newly announced tour that currently has consumers up in arms with Ticketmaster, Swifties aren’t the only music fans who have been burned by the ticket retailer this year. When Bruce Springsteen tickets went on sale earlier this year, some buyers saw the prices soar to $5000 thanks to the implementation of Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing model. Now, The Boss has spoken up about the outrage over the ticket-buying process, and it goes along the lines of, “Let them eat cake.”
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Springsteen breaks down what happened behind the scenes:
“What I do is a very simple thing. I tell my guys, ‘Go out and see what everybody else is doing. Let’s charge a little less.’ That’s generally the directions. They go out and set it it out. For the past 49 years or however long we’ve been playing, we’ve pretty much been out there under market value. I’ve enjoyed that. It’s been great for the fans.
This time I told them, ‘Hey, we’re 73 years old. The guys are there. I want to do what everybody else is doing, my peers.’ So that’s what happened. That’s what they did.