Kiss ticket prices were the same as Rush ticket prices, yet Kiss shows were more expensive to tour and created work for more people ..... it's a tired cliche that Gene & Paul get called greedy more than AC/DC, Maiden, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Metallica, Guns n Roses, Rammstein, Foo Fighters, Muse, Eagles, Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac ...blah blah

As for all the (poor quality and unnecessary) merch: it's all licenses - you're buying a product from a toy company, or a ceramics company or whatever ..... you're contributing to that economy, the selling point being Kiss so the people that invented that brand get a percentage.... but really it's about a hundred companies making products that a few thousand people want, and creating a business employing a few thousand in the process. ..... and whether you're Motorhead, Ghost, or Infant Annihilator all bands are sticking their brand on products at some scale.

Ford has enough money they should stop making cars.