@Kuddle6 cheap or smart?
Not quite what you're asking but when I was about 13 or 14 I was offered £800 by a man for my ticket to see a Scotland rugby match. (That's about $4,000 in today's terms.) I don't remember what the face value was but it can't have been more than about £20. He had fistful of cash in his hand and desperation in his eyes, but nobody in the crowd took him up on his offer.
Probably like $300
75 or 100 bucks maybe ?
When I was a kid I'd go to punk shows for 5 bucks admission. One venue you got in free if you brought food donations for Food Not Bombs. Sometimes my friends record store did free shows and Sometimes I'd help out at another venue so that was free for me.
Fun fact. Green Day played a house party here in Birmingham when I was in middle school . So saw them for free, just had to BYOB .
$1000 for front row watching Muse at Red Rocks, totally worth it!
I think I paid like £50-60 for Iron Maiden tickets a few years ago. Worth every penny naturally.
Also paid quote a lot for a live 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' at the Royal Albert Hall.
Last one I saw was My Chemical Romance (last year) for 350. Was great seats and I loved it.
I spent 1200.00 to see Duke-Carolina at Cameron. In the Student section !!
About $225 to see post Malone in nose bleed seats.
Several hundred to $1000+ to see a DJ set by Ross from Friends. Mainly for flights and Airbnb though, the ticket was like 22 bucks. That was a sad concert, was hoping for the dude to play songs from his albums but it was literally just a weird DJ set.
read an article earlier today about high ticket prices for especially Taylor Swift as OP wrote about earlier. One way around that was the promoters need to hire peeps for all kinds of jobs to put these events together. That's a pretty cool turn around.... people couldn't afford tix's and people now are getting paid to be at Swifts Concerts and maybe hear / see parts of it too! 🤗👍🎈
$800. But almost every other concert I went to has been free with VIP access from either working security, managing or just walking in like I own the place. So using some math it would be like $20.
Depeche Mode is coming to town! So excited.
@Mike403 Let's play master and servant
I got a pretty good seat.
The only one I've ever attended was a Rebecca St. James concert. And it was free for me.
I’ve only been to a few concerts and most of them were a long, long time ago (Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Yanni, Alabama, and John Denver). I’ve only been to one concert in the past 2 years and I think I paid about $85 per ticket.
If someone wants to spend $8,000 on a concert ticket, more power to them. They aren’t hurting anyone but that is not something I would ever do myself.
@JohnR1972 - It encourages scalpers that takes them away from actual fans to profit off of. I will never buy from a scalper.
@Mike403 - None of my concert tickets were ever bought from a scalper. Same for the very rare times that I attend a Colts or Pacers game - I always buy through proper channels.
Indiana loosened the laws on “second hand tickets” (I think that is what they call them). I see both sides of the issue. If someone buys 8 tickets for a large family 4 months in advance then something happens that several people can’t go, I don’t think they should be stuck with non-transferable tickets or be forced to sell them back to the promoter.
However, from a practical standpoint it is not possible to allow a person with an “extra” couple of tickets to resell them without opening the door for people who buy up tickets for the purpose of reselling at a profit. I think some venues limit the number of tickets a person can buy but that doesn’t really accomplish much.
My bestie spent $500/ticket & I'm seeing Death Cab for Cutie / The Postal Service at MSG in September. Will be worth every penny 😁