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Originally posted by xok85xo
Did the band just abandon what they stood for and stopped caring about their fans?
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er, this is sorta unfair . . . the bottom line, according to Vedder in interviews, was that if they continued without ticketmaster they felt they were screwing their fans worse, as they would be playing in hole-in-the-wall clubs instead of thousand-seat arenas. The difference between 12,000 fans being able to attend, vs 150, became the issue - ticketmaster has that kind of pull.
I'd say it was less "stopped caring about fans" and more "decided this was the lesser of two evils"