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This blog post was submitted by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

Dudes! Creed is back together! And they're going on tour!

How much would you pay to go see them play live? $85? $60? $45? $30? ...$15? .........$10?

How about 75 cents? Does that sound good?

Okay...what about 50?

No?

Fine.

What about if the actual ticket price is zero dollars, and you just have to pay $5.25 in assorted Ticketmaster fees? C'mon, dude, it's CREED!

According to Mary Colurso's blog on AL.com, ticket prices for an upcoming Creed show in Birmingham, Alabama have plummeted from an initial top price of $85 down to literally $0.00. There are fees, of course - the dreaded convenience fee (75 cents), and the even more preposterous ticket printing fee ($4.50) - which makes the whole thing not quite free, but it's pretty close.

And for Creed, the kinda-Christian post-grunge band of the late '90s that sold over 25 million albums and appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone, it might as well be free.

There are mitigating factors here, of course: aside from frontman Scott Stapp, the band's lineup is entirely new; the city of Birmingham's in such bad economic shape that it's been forced to lay off 25% of its employees; Idolator's Maura Johnston also points out that, when you add in parking and merch, it's really not such a sweet deal after all.

But with Limp Bizkit forced to confine most of their reunion tour to Eastern Europe and play their first U.S. show in eight years for free, maybe this is part of a broader attempt to destroy any evidence that late-'90s radio rock ever existed. Now how much would you pay for that to happen?