standard rant about Ticketmaster, version #34563357

[dead0man]

blah blah TWELVE DOLLARS! blah blah no I don't want to sign up for AOL blah blah


I'm just trying to see a sh**tty punk band, I shouldn't have to go through sh**tmaster to do it.  Didn't Pearl Jam shut these funkers down 15 years ago?  I could look it up, but I'd rather let somebody explain it to me.  And do it as a pirate.

[bagelman]

I've heard that some venues will want to charge their customers fees for BS reasons just for profit, but they also want to have a good reputation. So they use Ticketmaster as a bad guy middleman so that people will blame this monopolistic provider instead of the venue. This is second hand of course.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I didn't have any problems getting front row seats for Book of Mormon through them.  *shrug*