Concert ticket prices

It was worse in 22 when the Pandemic was winding down.

Seeing bands like this in stadium tours is an event, not a regular night out. That’s how you have to see it. And the market allows the price.

That said, premium pricing is for suckers. In the rare event I need to buy a ticket to a show, I just watch Facebook groups for people desperate to get rid of their tickets. In a pinch, I just hit up a scalper outside the venue. It’s not a strategy for the nerds out there who like assurances and to plan everything out, but I’ve never not gotten tickets this way.

 

Somewhere in my stuff



I have an old cigar box my Dad gave me that has many, many, movie and concert tickets in it. I'd love to look through that again someday.

 

I think it depends on the band and how much work they get.

We'll see a show at the Sphere whenever we're in Vegas.

Saw the Eagles for $375 for the best seats in house(3 rows in front) and you could get pretty good bleacher seats for $175.

Phish, coming up in April, are around $300 for premium seats with a great visual experience.

The days of $80/concerts from headliners were gone long before the pandemic. Particularly for established bands like Rush - boomers have money to spend and know they can't take it all to the grave.

 

I remember seeing this lineup at Lollapalooza for like $40-50:

Alice in Chains, Primus, Rage Against the Machine, Dinosaur Jr., Fishbone, Arrested Development, Front 242, Tool

 

That was a great show.

 

I think the tickets were actually even 10-15 less than that. I went to every lollapalooza after that (that was a national tour) and that was more 1995ish prices. I was barely 13 when I went to that first one.

 

IIRC you live upstate. Are you originally from jersey and how did you become a rox fan, just curious…

 

Middle class people used to be able to own a home and go on vacation. You didn't have to have a six figure income to live a good life. The change was when they decided to stop enforcing monopoly laws and slashed the top income bracket for taxation. 40 years of that has taken a toll on everything.

If you are a billionaire, your passive, non-taxed income right now is so great that you are incentivised to keep buying properties, companies and other assets. This results in the prices for *everything*- food, rents, utilities- clothing- going up because the wealth is more and more concentrated.

This is probably more information that you asked for, but I think the rise in prices in everything is down to this, more than anything.

 

A combination of monopolies from ticketing companies/venues, the decline of record sales in the age of streaming, and inflation.

 

My first time to RUSH was at the Keil Center in St Louis which is long gone and it changed the way I looked at Concerts, I have seen them about a dozen times, and I will be traveling to see the new shows.............dam the cost but HOLY **** have costs gone way up, I don't see how kids can go see them anymore, Ticket Master has killed pricing

 

It's pretty sad because both of my kids are REALLY into music but I can't take them to shows without having to take out a second mortgage.

I've seen Rush 5 times and I don't remember ever paying more than $100. Sorry, not going to pay $1,500 to take my kids to see them without Neil..

 

Whatever happened to congress taking a stand on the pricing collusion with ticket providers and resellers?

 

Learning about vertical monopolies is a fun read.

 

Eddie Vedder is on the case.

 

My first rock concert ever attended was 100% free.

The band was Free Fare! They played in our jr. high school auditorium during school hours for the whole school. It was a packed house!

They even did some Cheech and Chong comedy bits.

1970’s

 

Did no one go to the last Cure concert? Fantastic show, have not missed a beat and…