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Hi 10C,
I've been a HUGE fan of this band since 1993. I've also been a member of this club more often than not since then. I let my subscription lapse in 2020 and I now know from reading your posts that means that it's very unlikely that I would get tickets through the club (with the exceptions of nosebleeds at Wrigley perhaps due to the capacity there). I used to try to get up close to see the band back in the day, which just resulted in being crushed and having to be pulled out (that happened twice), and i wound up with bruised ribs the first time. i then saw them at some distance, from the side bleachers, four times, with no problems. Great! Last year, I had to go to Canada from Upstate New York (I live 2 hours from MSG) to get tix slightly below $200 for the last album tour. I'm old now (first saw them when i was 17), so don't remember name of last album - the glacier one! lol. It's a great album. Decent tickets, AWESOME show, but guy with a spliff next to me the whole time and i forgot earplugs (yes apparently I now need earplugs at 48). This time, i requested tickets for Philly at the $185 dollar price from the Ten Club, no dice. This morning, I just sat waiting for 40 minutes for the Philly presale and realized that i could get a seat right up front, hurray!!! ... for $900. The cheapest tickets in the whole place, kid you not, were $608. Folks, what is going on? Apparently, yes, people will pay that, but I won't - even though I deeply love this band. I can't justify it in any logical way (unless I was making maybe 200K a year?). I'm so fed up. I want to be a fan seeing shows, but i don't understand why it's often been so difficult. How can $608 be an average ticket price?
I've been a HUGE fan of this band since 1993. I've also been a member of this club more often than not since then. I let my subscription lapse in 2020 and I now know from reading your posts that means that it's very unlikely that I would get tickets through the club (with the exceptions of nosebleeds at Wrigley perhaps due to the capacity there). I used to try to get up close to see the band back in the day, which just resulted in being crushed and having to be pulled out (that happened twice), and i wound up with bruised ribs the first time. i then saw them at some distance, from the side bleachers, four times, with no problems. Great! Last year, I had to go to Canada from Upstate New York (I live 2 hours from MSG) to get tix slightly below $200 for the last album tour. I'm old now (first saw them when i was 17), so don't remember name of last album - the glacier one! lol. It's a great album. Decent tickets, AWESOME show, but guy with a spliff next to me the whole time and i forgot earplugs (yes apparently I now need earplugs at 48). This time, i requested tickets for Philly at the $185 dollar price from the Ten Club, no dice. This morning, I just sat waiting for 40 minutes for the Philly presale and realized that i could get a seat right up front, hurray!!! ... for $900. The cheapest tickets in the whole place, kid you not, were $608. Folks, what is going on? Apparently, yes, people will pay that, but I won't - even though I deeply love this band. I can't justify it in any logical way (unless I was making maybe 200K a year?). I'm so fed up. I want to be a fan seeing shows, but i don't understand why it's often been so difficult. How can $608 be an average ticket price?
"I'm like an opening band for the sun." -edved
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Ticketmaster happily plays "The bad guy" for all artists.
The artist has control over platinum/premium.
we dont know that the band is happy with this premium pricing , it might be the only way they can get TM to agree to the 10 club ticket blocks being held and sold at face value.
Not more expensive the big difference is every seat being sold atm for pearl jam is premium pricing even nose bleeds this was not the case for tool or Metallica