With floor tickets for Madonna at Madison Square Garden going for as much as $354.50, one has to ask yourself, are the prices of concerts maybe, just maybe, getting a little out of fucking hand?
What else can you do with $355? (and let's face it, the figure is even higher... you're going to get stiffed for Ticketmaster's anal-rapeage percentage markup for tithes, there's going to be tax, etc., just figure $400 a ticket, and then you're probably bringing a date, so double it). So what else can you do with $800?
- Fly to Europe
- Buy a computer
- Buy a complete collection of Madonna CDs and play them really loud on a brand new stereo
- Hire a hooker who looks a lot better than Madonna, but who will dance for several hours to your Madonna CDs and lip-sync just like Madonna will, only the "finale" of the show is a lot more intimate, and probably more satisfying
I'm sorry, I just don't get paying that much money for anyone. There's only one band out there that I've ever said "I'll pay whatever it takes to see them," and that's Pink Floyd, and ya know what? $355+taxes/tithes per ticket might actually make me rethink that vow. Because when I said it, how could I have possibly conceived that a single concert ticket could ever cost that much money?
I gave up going to concerts a long time ago. It sucks, because there are bands i'd love to go see, but I really, honestly, can't justify the costs.
Meh, it's not the cost that really keeps me away. It's the generally shitty accomadations, and the routinely lackluster performances. i find comedy clubs are a better use of my time.
That said, if Floyd tours again, I'm there. The Division Bell tour that I saw in Ohio Stadium in 94 is among the finer nights of my life.