Even if I take at face value everything you put in your comment, what is the problem? You seem to be arguing "Popular artists will want to be paid what the mark

Even if I take at face value everything you put in your comment, what is the problem? You seem to be arguing "Popular artists will want to be paid what the market is willing to bear!!" And??? I'd rather the artists get paid than Ticketmaster. Besides, in my experience, I've seen that artists generally don't actually want this (at least solely), because they want their concerts to be populated by passionate fans as opposed to just rich fucks that tend to be more boring as audience members. Don't a bunch of artists have deals where longtime active members in their fan clubs get first access to tickets so that they don't have to pay more on scalper sites?