ldquo;A clear; comprehensive look at a murky business.rdquo; mdash;The Wall Street Journal Your favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour. Should you pay to join their fan club and get in on the pre-sale? No; you decide to wait. But the on-sale date arrives; and the site is jammed. You canrsquo;t get onmdash;and the concert is sold out in six minutes. What happened? What now? Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry. Filled with entertaining rock-and-roll anecdotes about The Rolling Stones; The Grateful Dead; Pearl Jam; and moremdash;and charting the emergence of players like Ticketmaster; StubHub; Live Nation; and Outboxmdash;Ticket Masters will transfix every concertgoer who wonders just where the price of admission really goes. This edition has an updated epilogue that covers recent industry developments.
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