It’s official: All the homies still hate Ticketmaster.
Zach Bryan has been one of the most outspoken voices against the ticketing giant, doing his best to combat the insane fees and resale prices for tickets on his last tour by selling tickets exclusively through AXS, and making the tickets to his shows non-transferable. I mean, the guy even named his live album All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster.
Well, spoiler alert, people still weren’t happy.
So when Zach announced his 2024 Quittin’ Time Tour, he went back to the old system (and the enemy) and used all ticketing sites, including Ticketmaster, for the upcoming tour.
https://twitter.com/zachlanebryan/status/1699147963317023150?s=20
And once again, like we’ve come to expect from Ticketmaster based on many past experiences, it was a total clusterf*ck.
Fans immediately began reporting long waits, only to get past the queue and onto the site to buy tickets to find that prices were already sky high – or completely unavailable.
Well, it was only a matter of time before @zachlanebryan became a Sell Out.
No longer THE artist of the people, no. Zach is pre-selling DECENT seats in Denver for roughly $1400 each. You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. #SMH #ZachBryan— Casey Michael Adamson (@MileHighCasey) September 6, 2023
Straight up, pit tickets was 330 for 2 tickets for his recent concert in Arizona. Just spent 800 for the same tickets. What’s even worse is I paid only $62 a ticket back in 2021 for pit tickets.
— wyatt (@wyatklee) September 6, 2023
Saw @zachlanebryan 2 weeks ago for like $100 now those same seats are $295 plus fees. That ain’t it my man
— Thomas Daly (@thomasdaly15) September 6, 2023
crazy I paid $89 for lower bowl tickets for the burn x3 tour and today I had to fight for $300 lower bowl tickets and LOST. sold out right in front of my eyes. no Zach Bryan in 2024 :/
— cammie danielle (@noitscammie) September 6, 2023
i love zach bryan but these ticket prices aren't very "all my homies hate ticketmaster" of him 😪
— Meg (@gucciglxckgirl) September 6, 2023
And that’s just the fans who were actually able to get in.
I even tried myself to get tickets to five separate shows (two in Birmingham and three in Chicago). And by the time I got past the queue, this is what the prices looked like:
And any time I thought I had found reasonably priced tickets (and by reasonable I mean less than $300) they were gone before I could even get them in my cart.
Just an endless string of “another fan beat you to these tickets” until finally the system thought I was a bot and kicked me out.
And judging from the reaction on Twitter, there were a lot of fans in the same boat.
fighting for my life in the zach bryan ticketmaster queue..
— haylie! (@hayliesversion) September 6, 2023
@zachlanebryan been trying to get tickets for the last hour and 15 minutes this is breaking my heart 😭 everytime I click it says they are gone
— MusicIsMyLife (@1DHSPTM) September 6, 2023
Trying to buy tickets to Zach Bryan on ticketmaster presale declined my mental health
— Jared Brennan (@jbrennan0) September 6, 2023
Wtf happened to All My Homies Hating Ticketmaster. This Zach Bryan presale is ROUGH pic.twitter.com/gCHJ88lB6O
— Matt's Takes (@MattsTakes1) September 6, 2023
the fact that I sat in the Zach Bryan presale queue for 30 mins and then clicked on tickets for almost an hour only to still not actually have tickets … fuck ticketmaster
— A 🍒 (@pcwyndhams) September 6, 2023
Now obviously, there were a few lucky fans who managed to navigate the impossible system and score reasonably-priced tickets.
Overall though, it seems most fans realized that the issue isn’t Zach. It’s the whole Ticketmaster/Live Nation system that’s used what’s essentially a monopoly on the live entertainment industry to force fans to go through this excruciating process just to buy tickets to see their favorite artists.
And pretty much everybody is ready to see it change.
This Zach Bryan presale is already a mess. I joined the waiting room 30 minutes before and there was 16,000 in front of me but I joined from my phone at 10 and there were only 6,000 in front of me. Ticketmaster is such a joke.
— Liv 🫶 (@livieidk) September 6, 2023
Zach Bryan nosebleeds were 300 dollars by the time I got into presale. Ticket master should be banned completely from selling concert tickets for the rest of my time on earth
— Aiden Brill (@aiden_brill14) September 6, 2023
just got out of war (zach bryan presale) where is the class action lawsuit against ticketmaster 🧐
— em (@emilyannemelvin) September 6, 2023
I hate @Ticketmaster and anyone that buys and then sells on stub hub. Go play in traffic. #ZachBryan
— Ky (@KyAnnMo) September 6, 2023
And as Zach said, unfortunately there’s no real solution to the issue right now. Ticketmaster is the giant in the industry, and that means until somebody else comes along and forces them to compete and actually make their process fan-friendly, this same situation is just going to keep happening.
You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t – but unfortunately, a lot of Zach Bryan fans were pretty damned upset today.
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t, another lesson learned in the life of 27 year olds https://t.co/rXUGde6vg7
— Zach Bryan (@zachlanebryan) September 6, 2023
