Van Halen are set to tour the US this summer/fall in support of new live album "Live Tokyo Dome in Concert." Prices of tickets for the tour are already skyrocketing on the secondary market. As Forbes.com (via Blabbermouth) reports, the average price for a show on the secondary market is $223. The most expensive show of the three-month, 39-date run is a August 9 gig at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, where the average secondary price is 122 percent more than the tour average at $495.

This is ridiculous. $500? And to think that I had issues when I scored 2 tickets from Atlas Tickets (a legalize Scalping Firm) for the 1984 Tour for $35 each. Back then that was actually an insane amount of money for tickets. How I miss those days now. I had to go to Atlas because the show sold out within hours and if I wanted to see VH live, I had no choice but to go to a Scalper.