Miss the Old Days of $38 Tickets

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  • Ayedavanita
    Ayedavanita Posts: 1,443
    Thanks! I can never recall how it worked in the past.
    "You think I got my eyes closed but I'm lookin' at you the whole fuckin' time..."
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Momadance wrote:
    Thank You. I'm willing to bet that most people posting do not have a mortgage to pay and kids to raise on top of worrying about getting laid off. 378,000 people filed a new unemployment claim last week. 22,000 more than the previous week, the largest one week of new claims in five years. People who bitch about prices have a legitimate claim to do so and anyone who thinks otherwise is nothing more than an asshole.

    if you can't afford it...don't go...

    plain and simple...

    we can sit around here all day and blame this, that, and the other, but if a person is concerned about their personal finances, that's on them...not the band or the 10C...

    make better choices about your own personal finances and quit blaming...
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    Fahka Posts: 3,187
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  • Momadance
    Momadance Posts: 52
    inmytree wrote:
    if you can't afford it...don't go...

    plain and simple...

    we can sit around here all day and blame this, that, and the other, but if a person is concerned about their personal finances, that's on them...not the band or the 10C...

    make better choices about your own personal finances and quit blaming...

    People losing jobs in a recessed economy has nothing to do with their personal finance choices. I'm sure those 378,000 people asked to be laid off last week. Spoken like a true republican.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    LeatherMandi wrote:
    lame post.... Alot of people are struggling with finances.. it doesnt mean that someone should not go , just because they are having to scrape the monies up..


    Man, i forget sometimes that most pearl jam fans are old as shit. Where is the love/compassion for college students/young adults starting out?

    hmmm....you say this:
    LeatherMandi wrote:
    Man, i forget sometimes that most pearl jam fans are old as shit.

    then this:
    LeatherMandi wrote:
    Where is the love/compassion for college students/young adults starting out?

    and you wonder...:rolleyes:
  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    LeatherMandi wrote:
    lame post.... Alot of people are struggling with finances.. it doesnt mean that someone should not go , just because they are having to scrape the monies up..


    Man, i forget sometimes that most pearl jam fans are old as shit. Where is the love/compassion for college students/young adults starting out?


    That is true, but at the same time if someone has to choose between concert tickets and either paying their rent or feeding their kids the tickets shouldn't even be considered.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Momadance wrote:
    People losing jobs in a recessed economy has nothing to do with their personal finance choices. I'm sure those 378,000 people asked to be laid off last week. Spoken like a true republican.

    ha ha ha haaaaa....a republican...!?!?!

    nice...

    listen, if you all worried about the 378,000, sell one of your houses and give them the money.....

    seriously, do you think they should play for free...? how much is too much...

    I'd be willing to bet those whining have vices (booze, coffee, and smokes) that they can scrap together every week, yet get all pissy with PJ doesn't play for free...
  • Momadance
    Momadance Posts: 52
    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    That is true, but at the same time if someone has to choose between concert tickets and either paying their rent or feeding their kids the tickets shouldn't even be considered.


    Very true. For the record, I'm not bitching about prices. I could care less. I'm just defending those who do because some people can understand where they're coming from. The higher prices mystifies a lot of people who were around when PJ had the ticket price crusade. Some feel slapped in the face.
  • Momadance
    Momadance Posts: 52
    inmytree wrote:
    ha ha ha haaaaa....a republican...!?!?!

    nice...

    listen, if you all worried about the 378,000, sell one of your houses and give them the money.....

    seriously, do you think they should play for free...? how much is too much...

    I'd be willing to bet those whining have vices (booze, coffee, and smokes) that they can scrap together every week, yet get all pissy with PJ doesn't play for free...

    I donate plenty to charity. I don't come to message boards to degrade people with lesser financial situations than myself ... Unlike others around here.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Momadance wrote:
    I donate plenty to charity. I don't come to message boards to degrade people with lesser financial situations than myself ... Unlike others around here.

    who's "degrading" people....?
  • Momadance
    Momadance Posts: 52
    make better choices about your own personal finances
    I'd be willing to bet those whining have vices (booze, coffee, and smokes) that they can scrap together every week

    Judging people you've never met while having zero knowledge of their current situation is quite degrading.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Momadance wrote:
    Judging people you've never met is pretty degrading.

    you mean like this:
    Momadance wrote:
    Spoken like a true republican.
  • Gangstacro
    Gangstacro Posts: 104
    My favorite complaint when it comes ticket time is the people complaining that they didnt have a enough warning so they could save up the money for the show.

    Who the heck in this day and age doesnt use a credit card to buy things online? I'm pretty sure you can have zero money to your name and still buy tickets with a credit card. And if you don't use credit cards for whatever reason, you probably are not in the right financial mindset to be buying tickets to a concert anyways.

    I can see complaining because you didnt have enough time to plan your vacation, but complaining that you don't have the money right now and that you need more time is a freakin joke.
  • TheGossman
    TheGossman Posts: 1,120
    I hate to say it but if PJ tries to charge $70 a ticket for Columbia SC, then they are gonna have another Birmingham 03
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  • Momadance
    Momadance Posts: 52
    inmytree wrote:
    you mean like this:


    When one makes a Republicanesque statement people tend to think they're a Republican. Blaming the consumer for the current financial state of this country is nothing short of Republican. You've judged people by you're assumption of their vices and personal finance habits. At least I judge people on the statements that they make.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Momadance wrote:
    When one makes a Republicanesque statement people tend to think they're a Republican. Blaming the consumer for the current financial state of this country is nothing short of Republican. You've judged people by you're assumption of their vices and personal finance habits. At least I judge people on the statements that they make.

    All I said was: if you can't afford it, don't go....

    forgive my for "judging"...man, you sound like one of those ladies trying to figure out who's their baby-daddy on Maury..."don't you judge me, you don't know me...!"

    well, here's what I do know, if a person can not afford to attend a concert based on their current financial situation, that said person should not attend said concert....if they are concerned about 378,000 filing for benefits, and they are one of those 378,000, they should not be worried about $148 ticket prices...

    also, If they spend 20 bucks a week on smokes, 45 bucks at a bar on friday night, and go out to dinner 3 times a week, they shouldn't be upset about ticket prices...
  • Momadance
    Momadance Posts: 52
    touché
  • SoonForgotten2
    SoonForgotten2 Posts: 2,245
    DeLukin wrote:
    Last month I paid $77 for a ticket to see Radiohead in May and I'm not in RH's fan club.

    I'm sure PJ/10c is doing what they can but I'm just sayin...

    The thing to keep in mind with RH is that they are coming over from England and pay for their expenses and arrangements in pounds, which is hard to recover from the US market where £1 equals about $2. Also, they have decided to not ship any of their gear overseas and instead will/have purchased a second set to be kept in the US for their shows there.

    Actually seeing as how their London tickets are £45 ($90 US) each for their June gigs, $77 is a bargain.

    As for PJ, yeah the prices are high-ish. They always maintain a rather simple stage set-up, so while their prices aren't near U2 level, neither is their production and therefore, costs. I think there are two ways PJ could keep the costs down: 1- play cities where they can play a minimum of 2 dates per stop. If that means playing slightly smaller venues, then why not? 2- Find sponsors for their tours. Keep in mind that there would be ways to tastefully be sponsored. I doubt that a band mounting a small 10 date tour would need to have some ulta giant, evil mega-corporation sponsor their tour to help keep ticket prices lower.
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    this is pretty much what stuff costs these days, no?

    I can't remember the last time I got two tickets for something big for less.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do

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