'The concert ticket industry is broken,' justice department says as Ticketmaster trial begins

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4. Back in the day (early 70's) ....

... a ticket to top tier rock act cost, at most, about ten bucks. Of course, you had to take a trip to the Orange Julius to buy it - nothing was on line.

In todays dollar's, that would be about $80. Ticket Master (according to trial testimony) is getting about 5% of the ticket prices, so even if the ticket service was free, you would be paying $250 to $380 bucks. That's $170 to $300 bucks over the 1970 pricing.

I wonder what's going on? Has Rock-n-Roll gotten THAT much better???