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Ticketmaster is in the industry of taking the blame for high prices. Concert ticket demand vastly outstrips concert ticket supply at the prices that artists are happy with.

The only real solution is to raise prices. But artists can't do that without fans being angry. So instead Ticketmaster does it for them and pays the venue a k̶i̶c̶k̶b̶a̶c̶k̶ "rebate". If the artist is popular enough, the venue pays money to the artist. Everybody is happy and Ticketmaster reaps the rewards of being the entity everybody is mad at.