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What's In a Concert Ticket? New Book Details 'How the Public Got Scalped'

6:00 AM PDT 5/18/2011 by Shirley Halperin

Co-author Dean Budnick previews 'Ticket Masters' (out June 1), which chronicles the rise of the concert industry's second greatest commodity: the piece of paper that says "admit one."

The blurb on the back cover pretty much says it all: “Reading this book won't make you any happier about spending four hundred bucks to go to a rock show but you'll understand how it happened and who's to blame.”

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