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This is getting absolutely ridiculous....STP in NJ & Live Nation fees
How many threads are out there complaining about the tour ticket prices?
You think $84 per ticket for PJ at MSG is bad? Try $59.50 for STONE TEMPLE PILOTS at an amphitheater in Holmdel, NJ. Tag on the $6 parking fee PER TICKET and the $12.60 convenience fee PER TICKET (WTF?) and you're looking at nearly $80 to see fucking STP! They aren't even on the same level!
So if you travel in a group to a show, say 6 people can fit in my Murano, I've just paid $36 to park and $75.60 to Live Nation for them to put a stamp on my envelope. I can understand concert prices being high, but talk about gouging. I thought this whole Live Nation thing was supposed to help lower those fees since TM wasn't exclusive at every venue now. Between the fees and the merch, someone is making concert goers asses bleed.
They are pricing out the very people who drive the industry...how can your average teenage fan afford to go see multiple shows? It's just like sporting events pricing out the family of 4.
Fucking STP. Seriously. That's like the $50 after fees to see Live at Starland in NJ. LIVE!!!!!!! ridiculous. I swear my first PJ tix in 1996 were $12. Amazing how quickly things change.
I'm off to put $60 worth of gas in my tank.
You think $84 per ticket for PJ at MSG is bad? Try $59.50 for STONE TEMPLE PILOTS at an amphitheater in Holmdel, NJ. Tag on the $6 parking fee PER TICKET and the $12.60 convenience fee PER TICKET (WTF?) and you're looking at nearly $80 to see fucking STP! They aren't even on the same level!
So if you travel in a group to a show, say 6 people can fit in my Murano, I've just paid $36 to park and $75.60 to Live Nation for them to put a stamp on my envelope. I can understand concert prices being high, but talk about gouging. I thought this whole Live Nation thing was supposed to help lower those fees since TM wasn't exclusive at every venue now. Between the fees and the merch, someone is making concert goers asses bleed.
They are pricing out the very people who drive the industry...how can your average teenage fan afford to go see multiple shows? It's just like sporting events pricing out the family of 4.
Fucking STP. Seriously. That's like the $50 after fees to see Live at Starland in NJ. LIVE!!!!!!! ridiculous. I swear my first PJ tix in 1996 were $12. Amazing how quickly things change.
I'm off to put $60 worth of gas in my tank.
9/24/96, 6/14/98, 9/18/98, 8/3/00, 9/1/00, 9/4/00, 4/28/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03, 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 9/15/05, 9/16/05, 9/19/05, 9/30/05, 10/03/05, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 8/7/08 (Eddie solo)
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You bought tickets to see PJ in 1996 for $12.00, I find that VERY hard to believe, I was just looking @ some old stubs and I saw a Cheap Trick ticket stub and the price was $9.50 but that was in 1982. I would think the minimum that you would pay in 1996 would be $20.00 to $25.00.
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6/24,25/08,6/27/08,6/28/08,6/30/08
9/21,22/2009, 10/4/2009
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11/16/2013, 12/8/2013, 10/5/2014, 10/12/2014,
4/23, 5/10, 5/12, 8/20, 8/22 2016,
8/8, 8/10, 8/18, 8/20 2018, 5/12, 5/13, 9/20 2022
Heres my approach. They cost what they do, either go or dont. I mean gas is gonna be 4 dollars a gallon.
Its gonna cost me an extra 50 just to go back to msg and back and thats like 150 miles each way. Compared to 2003. So the tix in 03 were 50 a piece, now the are 80. they were underpayed than, and their fanbase does not buy their albums they spend tons of time writing. They have to do something. All bands are in the same boat.
no more shows
I didn't see PJ on the '96 tour, but I did see them several times in '98 and my stubs say $20.00...
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99 Tibetan Freedom Concert, 00 Detroit, 03 Alpine Valley, 04 Grand Rapids
06 Chicago I, 06 Chicago II, 06 Grand Rapids, 07 Lollapalloza, 08 DC, 08 MSG I, 08 MSG II, 08 EV Solo Milwaukee, Chicago I & II 09, Portland 09, Nobelsville 10, Cleveland 10, PJ20 I & II, Wrigley 13, Brooklyn I & II '13, St. Paul 14, Moline 14, Milwaukee 14
Wow.
I have the stub at home and am currently at work. But I swear that Fans, Tours and Tickets 1996 phone sale was really damn cheap. Maybe not $12 after all was said and done, but I recall PJ wanting to explictly display the cost of the ticket & the cost of the fees separately on the stub. It was Merriweather Post in MD, that much I can tell you. Anyone else remember?
the fees were a something like $3 for a bus pass (from yankee stadium to randall's island), $2 service charge and something for 50 cents....$5.50 in service charges, that's still less than PNC's parking fee!!
$22.50 + 2.00 service charge + 3.00 for parking = $27.50
gas was $1.25 a gallon.
i filled up yesterday at 3.45 / gal....craziness!
edit: that's a Randall's Island, NY ticket
ones that make me feel good when things behind the smile ain't ok...." -Hoon
Atleast the money you spend on the concert tickets will stay in America unlike the money you spent on your Nissan... Maybe you could get a better deal on concerts in Japan.
Don't buy the tickets then.
hahahahah! awesome quote. maybe if american cars weren't shit more people would buy them.
Last time I checked both Ford and GM ranked ahead of Toyota in quality... People like you are just to ignorant to realize that when a company like Toyota has quality issues it's not all over the front page of the newspaper the way it is with an American company. It's like our own media is out to sabotage our own businesses. But go ahead and keep supporting the only country who's military has ever attacked your country.
blame the Eagles for the first $100 ticket, and Barbara Streisand for taking greediness to a whole other level
actually, Im surprised that the STP tix are not more, like $89.50
the tix companies are pushing the limits to see just how much the public will pay
people keep buying, they will keep charging
as long as people care more about seeing a band than having a dollar in their pocket, it will continue
maybe this is a recent phenomenon. but every person (myself included) that has owned an american car complains about the crap quality.
and spare me the "keep supporting the only country" bullshit. i guess we better throw out VW / BMW / and Mercedes Benz as well.
isn't there a toby keith album you should be listening to right now?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe the German's ever attacked America did they??? Isn't there a history book you should be reading???
oh that's right. the germans only killed millions of europeans and americans in europe. they were also allies with the japanese (who by the way DON'T have a standing army anymore).
I don't like people who drive German cars either... If people are so concerned about the economy maybe they should support American companies... That is the only point I was trying to make originally.
the beauty of the free market. people buy what they can afford. also.. if american companies weren't turning their backs on americans people would be more prone to support them. outsourcing is killing america.
Most reliable (Best score first)
Honda Fit (pictured)*
Toyota Yaris*
Honda Civic Hybrid*
Toyota Corolla
Most reliable (Best score first)
Honda Accord Hybrid (pictured)
Toyota Prius
Honda Accord (4-cyl.)
Ford Fusion*
Mercury Milan*
Most Reliable Upscale/Large Car
Most reliable (Best score first)
Lexus ES350 (pictured)
Lincoln Zephyr*
Hyundai Azera*
Acura TSX
Acura TL
Most Reliable Luxury Car
Most reliable (Best score first)
2006 Lexus LS (2007 model pictured)
Infiniti M*
Most reliable (Best score first)
Lexus SC
Toyota Camry Solara (4-cyl.)
Subaru Impreza WRX
Honda S2000
Mitsubishi Eclipse*
2006 Mini Cooper hatchback
Most reliable (Best score first)
Pontiac Vibe (pictured)
Scion xB
Toyota Matrix
Toyota Sienna
One for the US!
Most Reliable Small SUV
Most reliable (Best score first)
Toyota FJ Cruiser* (pictured)
Honda Element
2006 Honda CR-V
Toyota Rav4*
2006 Mitsubishi Outlander*
Subaru Forester
Midsized SUVs
Most reliable (Best score first)
Toyota Highlander Hybrid* (pictured)
Toyota 4Runner
Toyota Highlander
Honda Pilot
Lexus RX400h* (hybrid)
2006 Acura MDX
SOURCE CNN AND CONSUMER REPORTS http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/autos/reliable/8.html
What have you been smoking that you actually believe that US cars are more reliable? There are only one or two on the entrie list.
Must be the water up in detroit or youve been btrainwashed by the local media-or wait, you work for one.
The US cos are lucky to still be in business, if it wasnt for pick ups, they wouldnt be
If it cost $1.25 for gas in 1996 and its $3.75 for gas now then it makes since that STP is charging $60 for a ticket when they used to charge around $30.
6/7/2003 (***1/2)
7/9/2006 (****1/2)
7/13/2006 (**** )
4/10/2008 EV Solo (****1/2)
6/25/2008 MSG II (*****)
10/1/2009 LA II (****)
10/6/2009 LA III (***** Cornell!!!)
They wouldn't have to outsource to compete if Foreign car companies weren't allowed to build 90% of their parts for dirt cheap in their own countries and then ship them here to be assembled to create the image that they are investing in America... Have you ever researched what American companies have to pay to sell cars in Japan??? I wouldn't have a problem if we had a fair trade agreement but we don't.
Speaking of old ticket stubs, I came across my first concert ever -- Sept. 1981 at JFK Stadium in Philly, PA -- The Rolling Stones, Journey, George Thorogood & The Delaware Destroyers. The cost for that ticket was $13.75!!!! I was 13 years old and my mom bought this ticket for me. I remember it being an all day concert, too. That show today would be more like $125 even with Journey minus Steve Perry!!!
~Edward
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are you retarded? People don't buy American cars because they have a notoriously horrible reputation in comparison to many foreign car companies...see the consumer report post above....or choose to ignore the FACTS and just ramble on about things you clearly don't know about....by the way...where do you think your shirt, your pants, and the shoes you are wearing are coming from? Sounds to me like you had better start making your own clothes instead of "supporting non-American companies"
Does this argument really work? Many foreign car companies assemble their vehicles here in America (for example: Honda - Marysville, Ohio; BMW - Spartanburg, South Carolina). And many American auto companies assemble their vehicles in foreign countries (example: Ford - Malaysia; GM - Canada). I sleep easy knowing that my Honda was assembled in Ohio so I'm sure several American workers at that facility are grateful for that.
~Edward
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Retarded??? No I'm not but alot of people are so maybe you shouldn't make fun of them... Anyway I've known just as many people who have had problems with foreign cars as American cars. As for my clothes... The clothing business has never been the #1 employer of Americans like the auto industry once was. Enjoy your foreign car and it's great quality but don't cry when the fast food restaurant that you are intelligent enough to work at get's run out of business by a foreign company.
good fast food is a medical burden on our country
another example of crappy american products
fast food is much better and healthier in Japan
but hey
its seems that the American car cos have some direct impact in your life, so I understand your position.
yeah the inflated wages paid to the union workers have nothing to do with the high cost of auto parts inthe US
and it costs more to make cars and parts in Japan-thats why they set up here.
the DeLeos are awesome live
it should be good if SW is committed