This week, the big story in the music world is the way that Ticketmaster hellaciously bungled the pre-sales for Taylor Swift’s coming Eras tour. In releasing tickets early to “verified fans” and Capital One cardholders, Ticketmaster left buyers waiting for hours in glitchy online cues and then, when their numbers came up, gave them mere seconds to buy their tickets. When fans did get a chance to buy those tickets, they were often astronomically expensive — in the thousands, thanks to Ticketmaster’s out-of-control “dynamic pricing” model. That whole boondoggle has led to lawmakers calling to break up Ticketmaster’s effective monopoly and to Ticketmaster itself cancelling the general-public sale of those Taylor tickets. It’s an infuriating mess.