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Working class vs the machine
With working class routes, great grandad was a farmer, dad was a gardener your identity is created by your routes. Music is being out priced by corporations to a point myself where my family and friends cannot afford to attend any concert. I've respected pearl jam greatly for keeping price tickets down and and at Milton Keynes we got our money's worth. But now particularly festivals are out of the price range of regular punters, a ticket is is a weeks work, plus expenses. Got bills, food , fuel, impossible for many, not asking for sympathy, but Jesus we all just want a good time. I remember attending Phoenix festival, Stratford upon Avon , UK in 96, ticket was around. 50quid, still steep, but the quality of entertainment was more alternative, different generation, different times, managed to survive with no tent or food, which led to some kind if of altered state!! So where's the representation of the working man, punk did it, particularly the sex pistols and the uk subs , we work all year for f#*k all and just want to be entertained, not by fortunate sons, but by someone with awareness of ordinary men and women. The machine keeps moving, and someday the festivals will be reclaimed by the foundation of every pyramid, the working man and woman. Peace.
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Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
I do agree with you though. It sucks that ticket prices are so high.
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I will pay what it costs to see PJ because I get so much more from the experience than seeing other bands. But it is unfair in general that fans are being outpriced
2012: Manchester I, Manchester II, Manchester (EV)
2014: Milan, Leeds, Milton Keynes
2017: London II (EV)
2018: Amsterdam I, London I, Prague, London II
2019: London (EV)
2022: London I, London II, Budapest, Krakow, Amsterdam
That said, I agree ticket prices are out of hand. In 1969 I attended one day of the Northern California Folk-Rock festival and saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Taj Majal, Lee Michaels, Sandy Bull and a number of other great acts. I was a senior in high school. Tickets for that all day event cost me about two hours worth of wages from my part-time, minimum wage job.
There is one other factor that should be considered: The continued population explosion. Big bands today attract huge numbers of fans- more than ever today. In the late 60's anyone could see any major act they wanted. Just buy a ticket and go.
let's see...
we live in fraidy cat society so we need 1000 cops being paid overtime to watch a show
the road crews are usually union employed so we have to pay for that wage
all the riders for the bands and their entourages
i'm sure NYC is taking a piece
garbage removal
advertising
toilets
and the list goes on
and the fan gets the bill
"White people 1st world problems"
A line that makes his entire stmt idiotic.
Its the beer and concessions that have lost all control.
even if I look and act really crazy.
Those that can be trusted can change their mind.
I get annoyed when my favourite sports team gets beat, when things go wrong at work or if I miss out on a PJ merch sale I was interested in. Sure none of this is life or death stuff, but to me at that time it is important.
And if I was priced out of seeing PJ I would be gutted. 1st world problem? It surely is, but doesn't mean I shouldn't care.
2012: Manchester I, Manchester II, Manchester (EV)
2014: Milan, Leeds, Milton Keynes
2017: London II (EV)
2018: Amsterdam I, London I, Prague, London II
2019: London (EV)
2022: London I, London II, Budapest, Krakow, Amsterdam
People are allowed to complain about ticket prices. Just as they are allowed to complain about the weather, or their job. People are allowed to have emotions, and are also allowed to vent their frustrations. If each time I complained to the wife about having to mow the lawn, and she replied with, "Do you know how many starving children there are in Africa"? .......I don't know...
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
I go to concerts in the chicago/milwaukee area often for next to nothing, hell sometimes actually nothing
"White people 1st world problems"
A lot of non-white people who live in the first world also have complaints about ticket prices.