Bruce Springsteen has championed many causes, from how sad AIDS is to the plight of those born in the USA.

And now Springsteen has turned his sights on Ticketmaster. Since he performed at the most-watched Super Bowl ever, Bruce Springsteen has seen a surge of demand for his concert tickets.

Trouble is, Ticketmaster has apparently been redirecting Springsteen fans to a ticket auction site rather than its regular face-value site. And now Bruce Springsteen is mad. See that Bruce Springsteen picture there? He’s twice as mad as that. We didn’t even know that such a level of madness was possible.

Give Bruce Springsteen a cause and the man will run with it. Tell him that some Vietnam veterans have been mistreated, and he’ll write a song about it. Tell him that human rights are being violated across the planet and he’ll play a concert to help stop it. Tell him that a dangerous number of people aren’t watching the recommended daily allowance of fairly crappy internet songs about Halloween and he’ll go and make one of his own to redress the balance.

And now that his Super Bowl performance has seen interest in him peak at a level that he hasn’t seen for over 20 years, Bruce Springsteen has decided that it’s time he became the old Bruce Springsteen again. The man of the people Bruce Springsteen. You know, the Bruce Springsteen that isn’t the muttering old curmudgeon Bruce Springsteen who only records bleak songs about depressing bumsex with prostitutes.

And in his new old role, Bruce Springsteen has decided to take issue with Ticketmaster, because it might be forcing fans to pay over the odds for his concert tickets when they don’t have to or something. Reuters will explain this better:

On Monday, fans trying to make face-value purchases for tickets were instead sent to TicketsNow, “even when other seats remained available at face value,” says a letter posted on BruceSpringsteen.net. “We condemn this practice… We perceive this as a pure conflict of interest. The abuse of our fans and our trust by Ticketmaster has made us as furious as it has made many of you.”

This is great news. Not only does it seem as if Bruce Springsteen fans are being charged more than they should be for liking Bruce Springsteen – let’s call it an idiot tax – but it’s also given Bruce himself some of the old fire in the belly that his most recent work has been missing.

Honestly, this kind of righteous anger against faceless corporations is precisely the sort of thing that Bruce Springsteen’s blue collar fans go nuts for. If he’s wise, Bruce Springsteen will quickly channel this fury into a new album. We know that we’d certainly like to hear songs entitled Hey Ticketmaster (Remove Your Unwanted Material From My Website) and the soon to be fan-favourite I Had To Queue Up For 20 Minutes At Tescos On Friday And That Really Isn’t On (Not For A Shop That Size).

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