Ticketmaster, argggg

You find out your favorite band is coming to your favorite local venue – so excited, especially because the tickets don’t really cost too much. So you jump online to buy a pair and bam – you’re send over to Ticketmaster where your $30 general admission seats for the show quickly turn into $50 tickets. How has this happened that with all of the monopoly business laws, we still have one event ticketing company who rules them all? Service fees, venue fees, fees to even print your own ticket (really, really?!) quickly add to up to a small fortune making event tickets a serious luxury in this economy. I recently went to a show where the tickets were $12.50 online, but after all the fees it would have been $17.75 – so I waited until the night of the show and even with the “day of” bump up in price, I still paid less ($15/ticket) than the Ticketmaster price. People, this blows my mind and apparently I’m not the only one that feels this way (ticketmastersucks).