This story originally appeared in the Asbury Park Press on Nov. 22, 2011. The holidays have come early for fans of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The Boss announced a world tour and new album Sunday night. "Well, things are starting to heat up ...

Springsteen, of all artists, the one who’d held fast throughout his touring life to a fixed mantra, ‘No one gets left behind,’ had allowed himself to be at the caprice of Ticketmaster’s noxious ‘dynamic pricing’ model.