What bugs me most about the Live Nation mess isn't just the fees, it's the pattern. We get endless speeches about free markets, then a giant company with obvious pricing power gets a soft landing right when public scrutiny might've forced answers. If your business model depends on hiding the real price until the last click, that's not competition, that's extraction. Fans, artists, and smaller venues all get squeezed, and somehow DOJ keeps acting like mild embarrassment counts as enforcement.