Wahhhhh....tickets are so expensive!! The Official Thread

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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,018
    MrSmith wrote:
    well at least there will be less smelly poor people at shows.

    I'll take smelly poor people over pompous pricks any day at a rock concert.
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2, 2025: Pittsburgh 1

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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    MrSmith wrote:
    well at least there will be less smelly poor people at shows.

    I'll take smelly poor people over pompous pricks any day at a rock concert.
    you speak out of turn, commoner!
  • Gibson
    Gibson Chicago Posts: 2,671
    The price is right, the price is fair and the price is well worth it. See you at the show.
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  • PillowPants
    PillowPants Posts: 4,877
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Whatever the price, we will pay it.

    and whatever the price... some tight asses will bitch ;)

    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Whatever the price, we will pay it.
    this,,for the best band in the world..yes..jut clik buy button..so easy

    ummm... are you new here?

    it's never as easy as just clicking buy....


    fuck i just remembered that... Temporarily Out of Stock

    eek
  • Vedder_Girl77
    Vedder_Girl77 Posts: 4,344
    Pearl Jam is worth the money!!! I'll never complain about ticket prices. I'm just thankful that I am going to see the greatest band in the world! You can't put a price tag on that!
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,018
    MrSmith wrote:
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    MrSmith wrote:
    well at least there will be less smelly poor people at shows.

    I'll take smelly poor people over pompous pricks any day at a rock concert.
    you speak out of turn, commoner!

    You're joking here but you're not that far off as far as how some people are here on the board. But not at concerts. I've been to 20 shows and I always think the crowd has a good vibe. Even people around you who come off as "stiffs" at the beginning are more than into it by the end.
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2, 2025: Pittsburgh 1

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  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    PillowPants wrote:
    Temporarily Out of Stock

    :shh:

    Don't jinx it PillowPants...
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  • ECM
    ECM Posts: 1,687
    drsluggo wrote:
    Does complaining about complaining count as complaining?

    Does questioning about "does complaining about complaining count as complaining" count?
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  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    Heart is charging $129 per ticket in my neck of the woods. For that price they better have at least 2/3 of the surviving members of Zeppelin join them on stage for the covers that they do.

    $80 for PJ is a bargain.
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  • Haijay
    Haijay Posts: 456
    [quote When PJ played Auburn Hills (Detroit) in 2006, whole sections of the upper bowl did not sell and they blocked them off with black tarp. When Tool played the same venue two months later, it sold out and tickets were very hard to come by.[/quote]
    hmmmm... well vancouver 2005 and 2009 sold out in five minutes including behind the stage, but tool in 2006 was not even close to sold out and you could still get second price level seats a month later. whats your point?
  • Haijay
    Haijay Posts: 456
    [quote="

    Not making musical judgements, just stating facts. And with the extensive light show, there is no way a Tool show should be cheaper than a Pearl Jam show. But they are.[/quote]
    well, when half your fanbase are skidmarks or teenagers, you need to keep your ticket prices low. tool only has FOUR albums for christ sakes, lets see how their eighth does, and then we'll compare them to another band they have no business being compared to.
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,018
    Songburst wrote:
    Heart is charging $129 per ticket in my neck of the woods. For that price they better have at least 2/3 of the surviving members of Zeppelin join them on stage for the covers that they do.

    $80 for PJ is a bargain.

    Yeah that's a rip-off but Heart concerts are filled with middle-aged people who could afford to spend a little more. Don't compare PJ to them. Compare PJ to their contemporaries like Green Day, Metallica, and Radiohead....all of whom charge less than PJ.
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2, 2025: Pittsburgh 1

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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    edited March 2010
    Haijay wrote:
    well, when half your fanbase are skidmarks or teenagers, you need to keep your ticket prices low. tool only has FOUR albums for christ sakes, lets see how their eighth does, and then we'll compare them to another band they have no business being compared to.
    Tool's fanbase isnt skidmarks and teenagers.
    Post edited by LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun on
  • fox_mulderX
    fox_mulderX Posts: 1,134
    MrSmith wrote:
    Haijay wrote:
    well, when half your fanbase are skidmarks or teenagers, you need to keep your ticket prices low. tool only has FOUR albums for christ sakes, lets see how their eighth does, and then we'll compare them to another band they have no business being compared to.
    Tool's fanbase isnt skidmarks and teenagers.


    you're right... they're arrogant tools. how fitting.
  • force-10
    force-10 Posts: 794
    Metallica performed in guatemala last friday. Over 27000 showed up. +

    Ticket prices US$ 200, 75, 35. In guatemala, mind you.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    fox_mulderX wrote:
    MrSmith wrote:
    Haijay wrote:
    well, when half your fanbase are skidmarks or teenagers, you need to keep your ticket prices low. tool only has FOUR albums for christ sakes, lets see how their eighth does, and then we'll compare them to another band they have no business being compared to.
    Tool's fanbase isnt skidmarks and teenagers.


    you're right... they're arrogant tools. how fitting.
    as opposed to arrogant [insert band name here including Pearl Jam] fans. saying Tool has no business being compared to PJ, despite both having pretty strong fanbases, critical and commercial success sounds pretty arrogant to me. or at least deluded.
  • baldoallornone
    baldoallornone Posts: 211
    Okay no one should be complaining...Pearl Jam is throwing us all a bone and I think it will be one that isn't for the coasts only. I think they are going to some places closer to being in the middle of the US which has not been the case for awhile other than Chicago.

    Just for frame of reference I dug up my tickets, in which I've seen them 17 times between 1998 and 2007.

    1998 cost $26 plus surcharges so at that time probably $35
    2000 it was around $40 for one ticket through the fan club
    2003 all purchased through the fan club averaged about $37-$45 per ticket
    2004 VFC through the club ranged from $60-$65 per ticket
    2005 Canada through the club ranged from about $60-$65 a ticket
    2006 through the fan club $60 to $90 (shows with Tom Petty) a ticket
    2007 for Lolla for their one day pass $80

    This being laid out, in the almost ten years I've seen the tickets double in price which I don't think is bad. Try buying tickets through Ticketmaster and getting bent over paying upwards of $20 above the face value.

    Bottom line, keep your eye on the prize...don't bitch, fork the dough and have a great time jamming in what you know will be fantastic seats. This is our band, even if my next show will make my 18 time hearing Evenflow. Getting older I look forward to that song so I can take a piss and get a beer. ;)

    Cheers to all and let's hope for some kick ass shows to be announced tomorrow.

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    2006 - Chicago Night 1, Cincinnati, and St. Paul Night 1
    2007 - Lollapalooza
    2010 - St. Louis and Noblesville
    2011 - East Troy PJ20 Night 1 and Night 2
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  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    Drew263 wrote:
    I hope the tickets are $150 each.


    To keep the riffraff out.


    :twisted:

    They're nearly that NOW! aren't they?
  • doompony
    doompony Wellington, NZ Posts: 4,501
    put them on your credit card and pay it off in dribs and drabs. geez.
  • why now u dont bitching
    why now u dont bitching Posts: 248
    DewieCox wrote:
    PillowPants wrote:
    DewieCox wrote:
    I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with the op on 1 point. They haven't done their best to keep ticket prices down or they would have stayed down.

    i knew this would get some reaction


    ok... and you're an expert on this because??????


    all i know... is i look at the price of a U2 show... or a The Who show... or any show of a top performer

    and PJ is near the bottom in price



    i'd love to hear your evidence to the contrary

    Pearl Jam arent' really peers with U2. U2 have been the biggest band in the world for the last 10-15 years. Their(U2) peers are Paul McCartney, ACDC and The Boss.

    Last Radiohead tix I bought were $55.
    STP at a small venue $55
    Tool, with their massive light show was $60


    I agree on another point of yours, that it's totally worth it. I just don't feel like they've tried all they could to keep ticket prices down. In 2k they were $25-35. They've almost tripled in price.

    Agree with this post. It seems when anybody tries to defend the much higher PJ ticket prices, they always compare them to U2, Rolling Stones, the Who and all those ridiculously expensive bands and are like "see? pearl jam is one of the cheapest tickets out there!" Ummm, what????? Yeah, PJ is cheaper than some, but there's plenty of bands that are pretty big and could charge bigger prices, but don't....like Radiohead, STP, and Tool. Pearl Jam could charge 400 a ticket, and someone will defend it as being cheap because there's a band somewhere that charges more. Fuck, you can go see Elton John for 40 something dollars. I dont like him, but that's HALF of pearl jam's prices for upper level tickets....and it's Elton fucking John.

    That being said, if Pearl Jam plays close enough for me to go, I'm gonna pay $200 or so for a pair and not even give it a second thought. I find the prices reasonable enough, I guess, but I'd prefer they were lower obviously.
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