Neil Young will stop selling platinum-priced tickets for his future concerts, the musician confirmed on his website, calling the practice "a bad thing that has happened to concerts worldwide." Young said he was inspired by The Cure's Robert Smith,

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,

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.