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How much is too much to go to a concert?

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This morning Madonna announced her first tour of Australia in 22 years. I saw not long after the announcement the "Platinum VIP Package" is priced at $1,990.00 with the cheap seats going for around $500.

It got me thinking; how much is too much to go to a concert. I can't say there are any performers who I think are worth paying nearly $2,000 for a ticket to see them live.

What about you? Would you pay that to see a live concert?
 
I say if you have it, no amount is too much if you really will enjoy it.
 
It depends on any number of factors. Not just the performer (although that's obviously the main factor), but the venue, the type of show, the material being presented.

I paid a fair chunk of change to see Prince a few years ago. Why? Well, obviously, I'm a fan of his, but that wasn't the sole deciding factor. He also was playing at a relative small venue (it holds about 800 people). He was performing an extended set, with no opening band. And he was performing what you might call a "free form" show - it wasn't a greatest-hits-plus-three-songs-from-the-latest-album set that one ordinarily gets with established artists. He played album tracks and not-well-known b-sides. He did a few covers. And everything was done in new and exciting ways - "She's Always in My Hair" as a minor-key extended jam, for instance. So was that worth the price I paid? Definitely. If it had been at a huge venue with two opening bands, with a standard set list...no, not worth it.

Here's my main thing about concert tickets, though. They aren't overpriced. If anything, they're underpriced. Why do I say so? Because of scalpers. If somebody can buy a concert ticket, and then resell it at a profit, it means the ticket was priced too low. And that money doesn't go to the artist or venue or promoter, but to some guy who simply exploited the basic economics of the situation. I'm guessing not too many scalpers will be snapping up $500 (let alone $2000) tickets with an expectation to make a profit here. :)

Lex
 
Most I have ever paid is around $200, and that was for good seats to bands I really liked.
 
In 2005 I went to see Simple Plan with a couple of friends, and that was the most expensive concert I ever went to, and the tickets were only about $40 (excluding the big country music festival we went to a few times, which is more than just a concert... those tickets were about $150 or so).
 
That is insane and so fucked up for all her poor gay fans that can't afford 500 dollar seats---I'm a big music fan for certain groups but would never pay that price---buy the DVD.
 
I wanted to go to a John Prine concert recently, but seats were $80 each.

Way too much.
 
I'm not a Madonna fan but if you are a fanatic and go crazy over live performances then I can see how $500 is justifiable for once in a lifetime opportunity to see an icon like her.
 
That does seem like an insane amount of money but................if you have the funds and want to go, why not? One of the best concerts I ever saw ( you'll have to google them because it was WAY before your time) was an R & B duo Sam & Dave - no backdrop fancy lighting etc. Paid $3.00 and they had the whole place dancing. FYI it was in the late 60's.
 
I'm a tight arse so i'm willing to pay $10 for a concert.
Why not support busker's instead? They are pretty good.
 
I can't afford anything near that and would not pay that ($100 might be tops), however, if I had a lot of money I might pay that much if the money didn't mean anything to me.
 
A few years ago I paid £75 to see the Rolling Stones at the arena in Manchester. £75 were the cheap seats. Right at the back, so high up that the ice-hockey scoreboard obscured the view of the big screen. Top price seats were £200.
Good as they were, I still felt ripped off and would have been just has happy paying £20 for the DVD.
 
I'm always pretty tight with spending money on stuff, so I think I would top out at around £60-70 quid. I paid that two weeks back for tickets at the Royal Albert Hall, but managed to get into seats worth a lot more (a lot of people just didn't show up, and we just slowly moved seats between the acts).

Generally I might spend around the 25-30 quid mark to see something, as I don't really enjoy big venues and I don't chase after seeing many established acts. Most of the gigs I remember most were either free or ten quid on the door. I would probably change that though for the Prince show Lex went to!
 
ravenstar said:
This morning Madonna announced her first tour of Australia in 22 years. I saw not long after the announcement the "Platinum VIP Package" is priced at $1,990.00 with the cheap seats going for around $500.

It got me thinking; how much is too much to go to a concert. I can't say there are any performers who I think are worth paying nearly $2,000 for a ticket to see them live.

What about you? Would you pay that to see a live concert?
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VIP packages in general include extras like a meet-n-greet where you meet the performer (and often get a personal pic taken as well as an autograph), often you get special seating, a backstage pass, a "swag" bag including the latest CD and other goodies with the performer's name/image/logo printed on it, and more. Depending on the performer and the added extras such a price may or may not be worth it..... But at $2000 more than likely not. I can't think of any performer/extras worth that price.... Unless maybe Cody Simpson were offering himself as slave for a day afterward (your ticket stub went into the draw and as your number came up you were offered choice of days left on the schedule until all were chosen. But then the slave bit would have to include anything and everything desired for that price, no balking at sex/kink..... Even then $2000 would be a tough sell, and would therefore include a LOT of kinky sex/bondage. He'd be very sore/bruised for the next few weeks.
 
I find pretty much all bigger artists concerts to be too expensive. Some of these prices just come off as them being too full of themselves.
 
Willie Boy said:
VIP packages in general include extras like a meet-n-greet where you meet the performer (and often get a personal pic taken as well as an autograph), often you get special seating, a backstage pass, a "swag" bag including the latest CD and other goodies with the performer's name/image/logo printed on it, and more. Depending on the performer and the added extras such a price may or may not be worth it..... But at $2000 more than likely not. I can't think of any performer/extras worth that price.... Unless maybe Cody Simpson were offering himself as slave for a day afterward (your ticket stub went into the draw and as your number came up you were offered choice of days left on the schedule until all were chosen. But then the slave bit would have to include anything and everything desired for that price, no balking at sex/kink..... Even then $2000 would be a tough sell, and would therefore include a LOT of kinky sex/bondage. He'd be very sore/bruised for the next few weeks.
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With the Madonna tickets, there are no meet and greets etc. There is a glass of wine or champagne on arrival, a seat near the front and a dj in the pre-party area where they're drinking their free wine or champers and a souvenir program.
 
If I were paying that much for the VIP tickets, she better at least appear in the same room as me in the "pre-party" area.
 
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nycguydowntown said:
That is insane and so fucked up for all her poor gay fans that can't afford 500 dollar seats---I'm a big music fan for certain groups but would never pay that price---buy the DVD.
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I alluded to this in my first post, but let's extend it out. Say she charged $30 per ticket. Yeah, the show would sell out right away...with roughly 95% of the tickets in the hands of scalpers, who would then sell them online for $125 each. So most of the tickets would still sell for $125, but in this case, most of the money wouldn't go to the venue or promoter or performer...but to some guys who exploited the fact that the ticket price was too low. For some reason, people seem fine with this, but consider it "gouging" if the tickets were $125 originally.

I've done plenty of meet-and-greets (part of my job) and they're usually reliably awkward. Most of the people just get nervous handshakes and awkward cell-phone selfies ("me and John Mayer. #nbd"). Then you get the occasional uber-fan who starts doing the mouth-covering "omg omg" thing, and the artist has trouble interacting with them. And usually there's at least one person who wants to pretend that they're good friends with the artist. "Johnny! How ya been?"

And VIP gets you a glass of wine and a pre-show DJ? Fuck that shit. Hit a gay club first, buy a glass of wine, go to the concert afterwards, and save yourself $1500 or so.

Lex
 
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