When face is around $70. The bands playing the venues get roughly 10% of the best seats in the house. Most of the time, and including Phish, these tickets are sold to secondary ticket agents. (stub Hub, etc). The the Band gets a percentage of the profits off those tickets. This create the illusion of bands, including Phish, charging $70 dollars per ticket. When if you average the cost per ticket with the sale to the secondary agencies its well over $70 dollars per ticket. Things to consider: The four guys in the Band don't exactly have final say in this. There is alot of overhead to pay and alot of people to pay to do a four night run at MSG. Phish's management isn't run by their vagabond friends anymore. They have familys and mortgages. And last but not least, its a business. You learn supply and demand on the first day of business school. Its not going to get any better. So my advice is work harder, work some OT, save 20 bucks a week for 2 months to cover getting your ass taxed to hell for tics. Drop the 6 grand for the software the ticket brokers use, Sell me cigs in the lot, get to work on lot. Be quick, be clever, date someone for their phish tic connections, We all have the one run we take it the rear for tics. It all balaces out it the end.