That’s how it it with every large band unfortunately. Ticketmaster owns the rights to every large club, theater, arena, and pavillion in the country, so if a band wants to go on tour they have no other option than to use them and play by their rules.

Only other options would be for the artist to build their own music venues and never sell to Ticketmaster OR just do smaller shows at non ticket master venues. For a band the size of D&C they would be playing shows every night for the next 10+ years just to satisfy the ticket sales, and that would piss everyone off real fast…even though. It would be awesome to see them in a smaller club!