Fan Club woes - is there a point any more?

PJNB said:

The amount of tickets the fanclub got from the spring tour alone should tell you that it is worth the $20 alone to stay out of the public sale headache. Good membership number or not it is still worth it imo. I mean I just went to Subway with my wife and 3 kids and spent $50 for one meal. I am pretty surprised people are even talking about the value of this. 

Agreed! What has happened to the price of fast food! It’s insane.

My $40 analog is well worth it. I enjoy the shirts and loved being on field at Fenway.  My sports buddy is always jealous. I mean we got to touch the Green Monster, walk the warning track, circle around the diamond, and oh yeah, a 30+ song show. Love being a fan of the band.

Damn now I am hungry again!

on2legs said:

Bentleyspop said:

So far he have membership equals...

1 Panda Express order 
Or
2 Chipotle burritos

I look at it as 3 4pks of really good local craft IPAs

Anyone else?

I believe someone mentioned 3 months of Netflix as well. 

I'm with the Netflix comment, Panda Express sounds groovy. We dont have them in Europe.

West Coast Dreamgirl said:

on2legs said:

Bentleyspop said:

So far he have membership equals...

1 Panda Express order 
Or
2 Chipotle burritos

I look at it as 3 4pks of really good local craft IPAs

Anyone else?

I believe someone mentioned 3 months of Netflix as well. 

I'm with the Netflix comment, Panda Express sounds groovy. We dont have them in Europe.

I’m not disparaging the delightful cuisine of the Panda Express, but I think Europe can get on just fine without it.

I have been a member since 1994.......if I amortize the total I have paid in memberships dues by the number of great seats I've been lucky enough to receive, it is the deal of the century!

I let my membership lapse in 2009 and only re-upped this year. I'm glad to be back. Don't really need any gifts.

JimFletcherPearlJam said:

At the risk of sounding redundant, we just spent $44 at Firehouse Subs for a meal for my wife, our three kids, and myself. Once again, that's more money than any type of Pearl Jam Ten Club membership. 

Ugh 3 kids is tough. Rough night over here. 2hrs in and still 3 kids up! 

I’m happy with what I get (and will get eventually). 

Zod said:

The way I feel about it now, is if you have a membership that goes back to maybe the Binaural/Riot Act Tours or older, you probably want to keep renewing, to have better seat location when the band does tour.   If you signed since that time, how much seniority do you really get?  I've been in the club since 98 and it never felt like I gained seniority before GA became a thing.   Old Timers are probably better off keeping their memberships so that if they don't score GA tickets they still get decent seat location.  If your a newer member you could probably get away with wading in and out of memberships.  Rumours usually start going strong before a tour gets officially announced.  All you need to do is sign up when the rumour dates are somewhere you want to go.  I've done that in other bands fan clubs.   Metallica, U2, AC/DC, etc.   Sign up to get fan tix, don't renew kind of thing.   You often get access to great tickets for not much of a premium price.

I would also say if you don't live in a big city that PJ frequents, and you loathe travelling, that maybe you don't need to keep a membership going.   PJ (prior to Covid19) seems to play similar places, so most people need to travel to see them.  If you don't like to travel, it might not be worth $20/yr waiting from them to play your hometown, that they never play.

I feel it's worth $20/yr to me.  I know I don't see them every year, but I usually manage to check out shows every 2 or 3 years.  10c has hooked me up with many tickets over the years.  It seems like a small price to pay for decent tickets when PJ plays.

i live in winnipeg.

played sunfest in gimli in 1993
next show was 12 years later in 2005
next show was 6 years later in 2011. 
next show is at least 10 years later and counting. 

that's it. people who live in the eastern US and the big 3 canadian cities (toronto, vancouver, montreal-all light years away from me), south america, and europe, have it made when it comes to shows. 

i originally joined for the single and deep mags (when you used to get 2 a year), and the excitement they MAY announce a local show, or something close to me. 

i've gotten to know some here over the years, which is part of the reason i stay. i was disappointed when the single was discontinued, but at least it will stop the annual "where's the single?" threads. lol. 

i've let my membership lapse several times since my initial join in 2005, because it really doesn't matter, seniority wise. but i stick around. 

if it's not worth it to you, it's not worth it to you. for me, it's roughly $6 canadian a month to be able to post and have access to exclusive stuff and talk smack. when i leave, i find i miss it after a while. 

if it's all about the ticket access to you (OP) and you don't live somewhere they frequent, that's understandable. but it's really not expensive at all for what you currently get. 

Lost In Ohio said:

It is a shame they couldn't have kept the analog at $40 and taken $10 off the vault.

OR...

Since they can do the vault every year with no issue, make the previous single (2019 for example) two songs from the vault released in mid-2020.

get rid of the shirts. make the only member item a vault vinyl of your choice from that year, you pay the shipping.