Kid Rock slams scalpers who caused his Detroit show to sell out in under 20 minutes.
Apparently, 45,000 tickets for a forthcoming hometown show sold out super-quick, mostly in blocks to “ticket brokers” who are already selling them at huge mark-ups.
Gibson’s website reports that Kid Rock posted a rant on his own site about the “[expletive]” scalpers.
He wrote: “I am a musician. I did not attend college and barely made it out of high school. I try my hardest to keep my ticket prices low. This I have control of!! I cannot control nor do I understand how the [expletive] the scalpers and all the secondary websites and [expletive] get them.”
He continued, “I feel like someone is beating up a close friend or family member while I’m chained to a chair. I try to understand it, I try to ask my managers and people in the business I know to help me understand it, but it seems they don’t either. The only way I know right now to stop it is to not buy from these people or wait till the last minute when they’re scared they can’t sell them and have to sell them cheap.”
He concluding by saying that he is committed to working out the best way to get tickets into the hands of fans rather than brokers.
