$94 bucks a show. That's crazy.

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  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    WaveRyder wrote:
    $94.24 per ticket for the Minneapolis show. Wow! :shock:

    And that's probably cheaper than some of the other shows.

    94 bucks is a lot of money to see one fifth of Pearl Jam.

    This show better change my life... or at least be good enough to make me forget how much I paid for it.

    The first show I saw was $23 bucks. Come on guys. Dont bash the corporations and big business if you're gonna...

    Hey wait a second...you were super excited yesterday... ;)
    I got four of them babies!!!!!

    If you're having second thoughts, I'm positive there are 2-3 other Minnesotans dying for ticket! :D
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  • Mudfest
    Mudfest Posts: 1,025
    vant0037 wrote:
    WaveRyder wrote:
    $94.24 per ticket for the Minneapolis show. Wow! :shock:

    And that's probably cheaper than some of the other shows.

    94 bucks is a lot of money to see one fifth of Pearl Jam.

    This show better change my life... or at least be good enough to make me forget how much I paid for it.

    The first show I saw was $23 bucks. Come on guys. Dont bash the corporations and big business if you're gonna...

    Hey wait a second...you were super excited yesterday... ;)
    I got four of them babies!!!!!

    If you're having second thoughts, I'm positive there are 2-3 other Minnesotans dying for ticket! :D

    end of thread ...

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  • AzWicker
    AzWicker Posts: 1,162
    Have no problem paying $94 a ticket. Back when artists could sell millions of records, it is much easier to keep ticket prices down. The margin has to come from somewhere. Most band surviving are the ones that can draw. There are some acts I will pay for and some I won't. Eric Clapton is another one I'd pay a lot to see, as long as he doesn't bring Steve Winwood again...

    Plus the Santa Barbara show has some $55 tickets in the upper levels
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  • TalkofCircles
    TalkofCircles Posts: 129
    Going to be an amazing show at the Wiltern in LA
    However, the tickets are WAY too expensive....

    pJ tickets are around the same cost as this tour. Except, when pJ tours....they need to rent bigger venues (Wiltern vs. LA Forum), less gear, less food, less lodging, smaller crew...

    This is just saying...why charge $40, when I can charge $80?

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  • demay
    demay Posts: 67
    it's just what usually happens when you're in the same successful gig for 20 years in America...you make more money. Not all solo artists charge this much $ though..look at Jeff Tweedy or Gene Ween..I personally go to PJ shows to watch Stone play with Jeff and Matt, and Eddie. The band is all grown up, concerns are about family now, and Ed's probably wants to do whatever it takes to provide a financially sound future for his kids...I mean, I see where he's coming from, I guess.
    the other thing I can see, is that if he charged say, $50, there would be droves of people selling them above face. So Ed would rather have that money not go to scalpers. just a thought...anyway, it'll probably be a great show for big PJ fans.
  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    edited March 2011
    i think it's crazy too Yo.

    viewtopic.php?f=4&t=151780

    of course we all think it's worth it.....it's fucking eddie vedder! lol!
    but take your ape-shit for live music rose tinted glasses off and then tell me is it worth it?
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  • STT757
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    I paid less than $30 to see Pearl Jam at Randall's Island in 1996.
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  • jgardz
    jgardz Posts: 277
    My $81 for Detroit was fair I think, compared to the crazy ass prices a lot of acts charge for shows in huge buildings. Ed will be worth it, I have no doubt!
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    I spent 75 bucks of a tankful of gasoline today. And the tank was about 1/4 full.
    ...
    Perspective.
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  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    Nothing crazy about it at all.

    1) Neil Young costs a lot more, and EV solo is better. No offence to Neil.
    2) If the price was too high TC tix wouldn't have been such a bitch to get.
    3) It's worth it b/c he's one of the best artists around.
    4) If the price was $300/ticket I probably wouldn't be going.
    5) I think the price is too low. This will be my 4th Ed show. If the price was $200-300 I'd maybe see 1 show.
  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    STT757 wrote:
    I paid less than $30 to see Pearl Jam at Randall's Island in 1996.

    I paid $38.50 to see them in Buffalo in 2003 ;)
  • WaveRyder
    WaveRyder Posts: 1,128
    Im not saying I wont enjoy the show, it's just that I used to be able to tell ppl that PJ and Eddie were awesome to their fans, and for the most part they still are, and were nt in it for the money. I can't say that anymore when I have to follow the statement up with the fact that I havent paid less than 70 bucks to see PJ or eddie in more than 8 years.
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  • maj4e
    maj4e Posts: 605
    I spend 115/mo on cable that I seldom watch. A lot of fans still smoke a pack a day or drink a 6 pack a day. In the grand scheme of it all this is very little money for something you don't have the opportunity to do very often. I don't know what my ceiling is for PJ/EV but I haven't hit it yet for concerts. Merchandise is another story.
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    WaveRyder wrote:
    Im not saying I wont enjoy the show, it's just that I used to be able to tell ppl that PJ and Eddie were awesome to their fans, and for the most part they still are, and were nt in it for the money. I can't say that anymore when I have to follow the statement up with the fact that I havent paid less than 70 bucks to see PJ or eddie in more than 8 years.

    the band/Ed are not becoming greedy. it's called inflation. do you still pay the same price for everything else today that you did in 1996? no, you don't. do you still get paid the same? no, you don't. or at least, I HOPE you don't. should your boss sit you down and tell you "you know, I used to like your morals, now you're jacking me for everything I've got"?

    I've never understood why people have always been so proud to put PJ on a pedestal about the TM thing, and now that they charge prices people aren't ok with, they are "embarassed" about it. I thought it was about their MUSIC, not how much money they save you.

    A buddy of mine paid $300 to see the Eagles stand in one spot for 2 hours sounding exactly like the albums. Now THAT'S outrageous.
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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    Paul David wrote:

    A buddy of mine paid $300 to see the Eagles stand in one spot for 2 hours sounding exactly like the albums. Now THAT'S outrageous.

    who's to say pj won't charge that one day?
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  • WaveRyder
    WaveRyder Posts: 1,128
    Paul David wrote:
    WaveRyder wrote:
    Im not saying I wont enjoy the show, it's just that I used to be able to tell ppl that PJ and Eddie were awesome to their fans, and for the most part they still are, and were nt in it for the money. I can't say that anymore when I have to follow the statement up with the fact that I havent paid less than 70 bucks to see PJ or eddie in more than 8 years.

    the band/Ed are not becoming greedy. it's called inflation. do you still pay the same price for everything else today that you did in 1996? no, you don't. do you still get paid the same? no, you don't. or at least, I HOPE you don't. should your boss sit you down and tell you "you know, I used to like your morals, now you're jacking me for everything I've got"?

    I've never understood why people have always been so proud to put PJ on a pedestal about the TM thing, and now that they charge prices people aren't ok with, they are "embarassed" about it. I thought it was about their MUSIC, not how much money they save you.

    A buddy of mine paid $300 to see the Eagles stand in one spot for 2 hours sounding exactly like the albums. Now THAT'S outrageous.

    The prices of these tickets have inflated more than the national inflation average. In 1996 paid 85 cents for a 20 oz soda and 2.45 for a gallon of milk. Now I pay 1.25 and 3.25 (give or take) respectively. So don't give me that inflation garbage.


    I understand they still sell tickets for less than SOME of the other upper-echelon bands (U2, The Eagles, Neil Young, The Who, Robert Plant), and that's why I can tolerate the prices.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    WaveRyder wrote:
    I understand they still sell tickets for less than SOME of the other upper-echelon bands (U2, The Eagles, Neil Young, The Who, Robert Plant), and that's why I can tolerate the prices.
    ...
    So... it other words... that's NOT crazy, right?
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,020
    Cosmo wrote:
    WaveRyder wrote:
    I understand they still sell tickets for less than SOME of the other upper-echelon bands (U2, The Eagles, Neil Young, The Who, Robert Plant), and that's why I can tolerate the prices.
    ...
    So... it other words... that's NOT crazy, right?

    It's impossible to tolerate something that is crazy?
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  • WaveRyder
    WaveRyder Posts: 1,128
    Cosmo wrote:
    WaveRyder wrote:
    I understand they still sell tickets for less than SOME of the other upper-echelon bands (U2, The Eagles, Neil Young, The Who, Robert Plant), and that's why I can tolerate the prices.
    ...
    So... it other words... that's NOT crazy, right?


    It's still crazy to pay that much. Where I live, you couldn't get people to pay that much to meet the fuckin pope. But I am crazy, crazy for PJ and Eddie and the rest of the boys. So I tolerate the prices. I think the more they charge, the more I get a bad taste in my mouth, and the longer that happens the more likely I am to stop going to shows.
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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    WaveRyder wrote:
    But I am crazy, crazy for PJ and Eddie and the rest of the boys. So I tolerate the prices.



    thus the ape shit rose color glasses i speak of. :lol:
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