Every concertgoer, no matter their musical preferences, can agree on one thing: service charges are way the eff out of control. Say, for example, you wanted to buy a pair of tickets to see Tori Amos at DAR Constitution Hall on Aug. 1. You have no real choice but to go to Ticketmaster.com and cough up $45 for each ticket, plus an $11.15 “convenience” charge per ticket, plus another $1.50 each for something called the “building facility charge.” They even try to charge you $4.75 for the privilege of printing your own ticket at home, and then, in the checkout process, add on an extra “order processing charge” of $5.60, bringing the grand total for two people to attend this single concert to a whopping $125.65. It’s hard to fathom how getting ripped off to the tune of more than $30 qualifies as “convenience.”

With all this said, some better news: Bristow-Va.-based concert promotion giant Live Nation announced today that it is dropping various service charges on Wednesdays for the rest of the summer. From the release:

Throughout the rest of the summer, Live Nation becomes Free-Nation, as it offers a variety of “No Service Fee Wednesdays” specials at www.LiveNation.com, making Wednesday the biggest day of the week for savings on concert tickets for hundreds of shows and millions of fans.

The first promotion starts at 12:01 a.m. local time this Wednesday, June 3, and is only good for lawn tickets to LiveNation.com-ticketed Nissan Pavilion shows. Other Wednesday promotions later in the summer will offer different sorts of service charge discounts. Check in at www.LiveNation.com to see if there are shows you’d planned to buy tickets for and set your alarm for early Wednesday morning.