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[bonnie_rocks]

Why the fuck are concert tickets so G-d damn expensive nowadays?! Seriously. Dave Matthews Band is performing at Madison Square Garden in April. The price of a ticket for anywhere (not just the floor) is $70. 70 fucking dollars! Do you want to know how much it cost for me to go see Veruca Salt and Bush in 1997? $35 and that was for seats directly behind the pit and we ended up in a Bush music video for "Cold Contagious". That was the first concert I ever went to.

But $70? Are they mad?! And the really rediculous thing about it is the fact that you no longer have a chance to even buy a ticket anymore unless you are part of the band's membership club that costs money because they have presales. Fuck that shit! Give me a fucking bracelet with a random number on it the night before tickets go on sale and then the next morning have me stand outside of a place that does Ticketmaster transactions, choose a random number from the lottery of bracelets and maybe, maybe I'd actually have the chance to purchase a ticket. That's how it used to be. Want to know what ended that era? Online purchasing!! Load of bullshit if you ask me. You sit at the computer constantly hitting refresh before the tickets go on sale and as soon as they say you can purchase them, the server is magically busy so that you can't buy tickets and when you finally can, they are all sold out. What the fuck?! O_O

I say Bring back affordable concert tickets!!!

~*::Meow::*~

Comments

[page-of-swords.livejournal.com]

Or AMEX because they get first dibs before the band fanclub in many cases for older established bands. Ticket master whores to AMEX to get a lower merchant fee.

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

I forgot about that. Such bullshit man.

~*::Meow::*~

[fuukaba.livejournal.com]

slightly smaller venue gigs are totally your friend....cept when the band you're seeing doesn't do them...in that case....stubhub?

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

This is true, but smaller venue shows are few and far between, and more often than not they have shows with way too late of a start time, like 10pm on a weekday. I haven't been to a concert for a band that I'm not friends with since 2003. That was a Dream Theater show at Jones Beach.

~*::Meow::*~

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

Were they for good seats?

~*::Meow::*~

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

Geebus.

~*::Meow::*~

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

They charge $70 because they know they can get $70.

D:

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

It also doesn't help that concert T-shirts are $40-$50. My long sleeve Bush shirt cost me $25.

~*::Meow::*~

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

EVERYTHING is extremely expensive these days.

[toasty95.livejournal.com]

$70 is a great low price.
I think I paid $73 per Maroon 5 ticket and that was "every man for himself" because all seats were the same price. (It was $71 plus some silly hippie tax of $2 ("We wanna help advertise that our world is dying and to stop polluting").)
Came up to under $80 per ticket.

Go to something like a Jay-Z concert and they'll charge you $130 for a "meh" seat.

[seppeku.livejournal.com]

Actually considering some of the prices I've seen online for huge named bands that sounds reasonable XD
But I completely agree that's overpriced anyway, as almost all tickets for events