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Robert Smith Is ‘Not Letting This Go’ on Affordable Tickets

Robert Smith opened up about his viral battle to keep The Cure tickets cheap, weighing in on Ticketmaster and artists' power to price their tickets.

Speaking with the Times Friday, he said that industry contacts of the band had advised the Cure against pricing seats the way they did, where all venues had some tickets for as low as $25. Smith wrote at the time that he was “sickened” by the fees and asked Ticketmaster to justify how that happened, and by the next day, the company gave out partial refunds. “To the Cure’s credit, their ticket price was so much lower than typical that even the smallest fees set by venues didn’t make sense.

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