Ticketmaster has monopolistic dominance here, yes. However, the strongest monopoly involved is Blink-182 themselves, with absolute control over how they sell "B

Ticketmaster has monopolistic dominance here, yes. However, the strongest monopoly involved is Blink-182 themselves, with absolute control over how they sell "Blink-182" live performances. They may be quite happy with some other big, bad corporation taking the hit for policies which manage to capture more of the full willingness-to-pay for the band and official partners, rather than secondary sellers (scalpers).