Young said he was inspired by The Cure’s Robert Smith, who took a similar stance for the band’s North America tour back in 2023, calling platinum and dynamic tickets “a greedy scam” that artists can choose to opt out of (at the expense of some of their ticketing revenue.)

Neil Young joins the growing number of artists trying to improve upon what he calls “the bad thing that has happened to concerts world-wide”—that is, inflated ticket prices, particularly under Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing system.

In 2023, the Cure announced their first North American tour in a long while, and they did their best to keep ticket prices affordable. When Robert Smith saw the Ticketmaster service fees that were tacked on to most of those tickets,