Band's frontman 'sickened' by unreasonable service fees that added up to more than the ticket's face value
“To Wish Impossible Things” is how concert-goers usually feel when it comes to groaning about lower prices from Ticketmaster.
But it’s also a song from The Cure’s 1992 album “Wish,” and on Thursday lead singer Robert Smith made a seemingly impossible wish come true by announcing a deal with Ticketmaster to offer partial refunds following an outcry over service fees that were more expensive than the ticket’s face value. Fans of The Cure responded loudly and angrily online, venting most of their ire at Ticketmaster, the unit of Live Nation Entertainment Inc. LYV that holds a virtual stranglehold on major concert ticket sales in the U.S.
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