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The Music Thread Strikes Back

I would rather vigorously assault my scrotum with a cheese grater than watch either Gallagher live. Oasis are shit.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kdxlv8x05o

The last time Oasis played Wembley Stadium, in 2009, a standing ticket cost exactly £44.04.

For their return next summer, the same ticket was priced at £150. Vastly more than the old ticket price which, when adjusted for inflation, would cost £68.... Ticket prices shot up by 23% last year,, external having already risen 19%, external since the pandemic....
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Interesting article. It appears a lot of agents rely on people making "irrational decisions" to buy tickets (are you reading jeff shi?) and that the desire for people doing this is starting to wane.
 
It's tosh. Article about inflation being a thing.

And supply and demand being another thing.

If you want to avoid paying outlandish rates for these things its easy. you dont buy them
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
It's tosh. Article about inflation being a thing.

And supply and demand being another thing.

If you want to avoid paying outlandish rates for these things its easy. you dont buy them
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Bought tickets for The Darkness' upcoming tour yesterday at Wembley Arena (we're at a Quo convention the night they're playing the Civic) and five tickets came to £240. £40+ of that was fees which really pissed me off. What the fuck is a "facility fee"?

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I was also entertaining the VIP package as the last one they did was so good, but at £150 each they can suck it. This will probably be the last gig I can be bothered to buy tickets for, after Anthrax, Pantera and this I think I'm done, it's just not good value for money any more.
 
As well as some big concerts this summer, I've also gone to a few smaller gigs, unsigned bands.
Bit of a throwback to my youth, and do feel a bit like a midlife crisis old fart, but have really enjoyed them and never paid over a tenner for admission.
 
Boozad said:
Bought tickets for The Darkness' upcoming tour yesterday at Wembley Arena (we're at a Quo convention the night they're playing the Civic) and five tickets came to £240. £40+ of that was fees which really pissed me off. What the fuck is a "facility fee"?

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I was also entertaining the VIP package as the last one they did was so good, but at £150 each they can suck it. This will probably be the last gig I can be bothered to buy tickets for, after Anthrax, Pantera and this I think I'm done, it's just not good value for money any more.
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the numerous fees issue has been bugging me for years. It's even worse imo given far too many places only give you an e-ticket.
where possible, i always select having a physical ticket. i've kept tickets for all gigs i go to.
still really enjoy gigs, but am a lot more choosy now, and spend less when i am in the venue too.
when i started going to gigs, tshirts inside were a tenner, (bootlegs outside were a fiver). a drink was affordable. now a drink costs more than a meal at home, and tshirts are £35 or more, and the ones outside aren't far off the same, with the dudes having card readers to accept payment ffs!
 
Yeah merchandise can get fucked. I’ll buy t-shirts when I need them not just because they’re there. But yeah I remember paying something like £14 for plenty of gigs at the Civic in my teens, Megadeth, Pantera, Slayer, Anthrax. And getting pissed was affordable. I think it’s nearly £8 for a 330ml can of Neck Oil in the Civic now. Fuck that.

Doing anything you enjoy these days comes at the cost of something else, it’s beyond a joke and the greedy bastards who’ve got their hands in any form of entertainment (football, gigs, cinema, theatre, whatever) will ultimately kill it for everyone. I’d rather sit at home and read a book or watch videos of people unblocking drains on Facebook than pay these ridiculous prices. I even refused Francis Rossi’s tour next year as the tickets are £70. Get fucked.
 
my first civic gig was £6.50. early 90's. maiden were £12.80 in 1992. I saw the foos on their first tour for £12.50.
I look at prices now and despair. some months in the 90's i'd do a gig every week. no chance now.
 
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