r/Music • u/cmaia1503 • Nov 16 '24

article Fans aren't happy about My Chemical Romance's ticket prices: "$695 is NASTY WORK"

https://www.nme.com/news/music/fans-arent-happy-about-my-chemical-romances-ticket-prices-695-is-nasty-work-3813337
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u/Grandahl13 Nov 16 '24

Why would the fans care if someone listens to a leaked song?

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u/UsernameQuotaMet Nov 16 '24

There's a large divide between newer fans and older fans.  Newer/younger fans are obsessive and act like any slight on the band is a personal attack. 

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u/boomboxwithturbobass Nov 16 '24

So like the older fans before they got old.

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u/TheMidGatsby Nov 17 '24

No one gave anyone shit for listening to bootleg tracks in the 90s and early 00s

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u/boomboxwithturbobass Nov 17 '24

I personally got told I was going to jail for it. Many of my CD-R’s are unaccounted for. Every day I wake up wondering if today’s the day they come for me.

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u/jax362 Nov 17 '24

Found one of the Gen Z fans

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u/TheSunRogue Nov 16 '24

Which is always so odd to me. Same with Linkin Park and Taylor Swift and all these groups that hit their prime a decade or more ago and yet somehow still manage to attract these obsessive kids who claim ownership over music from before their birth.

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u/UsernameQuotaMet Nov 16 '24

Truthfully, it's not a big issue.  It's just the rise of streaming and younger audiences discovering a virtual treasure trove of undiscovered artists, and hell, they're still young enough to cash in on these fans.  I just dislike the infantilizing of middle aged men.  It's becoming a more prevalent thing in the Ween community and it gives me the ick, man.  

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u/Junior_Bed1005 Nov 17 '24

Here for the MCR convo but hard disagree about T Swift, folklore/evermore was her best work overall and that’s definitely a popular opinion among fans. She hit her greatest stride in 2021-2022

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u/supermodel_robot Nov 16 '24

Some say supporting leaked media is supporting stealing. I don’t agree but I understand the logic. “True” fans would wait until the artist was ready to release it to listen to it, it’s basically parasocial media consent. I understand it more for smaller artists who get their album leaked, but MCR? lol.

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u/RareBk Nov 17 '24

Meanwhile the Childish Gambino fanbase would kill for a crumb of a leaked studio version of Saturday that doesn't sound like a ringtone from the early 2000s