As someone who has long bemoaned the exorbitant fees tacked on by Ticketmaster, I'm quite pleased to see them taking a PR beating, and perhaps a big financial hit, for their recent tactics with some big name concerts.

What stands out for me in the article (assuming you've read the link), apart from the evil genius that lies at the heart of scalping your own tickets and essentially forcing the casual concert-goer to take a leap into a whole new level of fandom by ponying up airfare-like prices to attend what will likely be two hours of uneven musical performance, is that, in the year of our Lord 2008, somebody actually paid $536 to see the *#!*ing Smashing Pumpkins. I mean, okay, $200 of those charges were likely 'handling fees', but still I'm wondering how Henryk Krajewski felt when, after having doled out $270 per seat, Mr. Corgan et al refused to play their old hits?

Discuss. Or tear out your hair. Or just chortle smugly.