$4,300 Ticket to see the Boss (Page 1/4)
Jake_Dragon JUL 25, 04:02 PM
at $4,300 a ticket, I'm going to go look for a new Boss

Edit: Bruce Springsteen

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Patrick JUL 25, 04:32 PM

Must be an expensive old folks home he resides in.
cvxjet JUL 25, 05:18 PM
Just my 2 cents worth- would not EVER go see him...Can't stand him!
williegoat JUL 25, 07:23 PM
It used to be that tours were done to promote record sales. Nobody buys records, cassettes, CDs, etc anymore so all of the money is made on concert tickets. When I saw the Rolling Stones in 1969, the tickets were $4.50 apiece.
ls3mach JUL 25, 07:24 PM
I saw people complaining about $1000 tickets to hangout or I'm not sure exactly with Chris Brown. Think for an extra $50 he'll smack a woman? Maybe it's included.

I like Bruce, I don't like live music very often. I certainly wouldn't pay that price for anyone, not even in my wealthiest days.

That's more than most Americans have in savings.
Jake_Dragon JUL 25, 09:09 PM
I remember when the Eagles charged $300 and people lost their minds.
theogre JUL 26, 09:42 AM

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Originally posted by williegoat:
It used to be that tours were done to promote record sales. Nobody buys records, cassettes, CDs, etc anymore so all of the money is made on concert tickets. When I saw the Rolling Stones in 1969, the tickets were $4.50 apiece.

Actually wrong even "back then." IE other way around.

Record a song/album to release at the Studio's Whims then go on tour before Radio/TV/Press hype and sales of same dries out.

Because Concerts was often main money maker for the band/artist. They got very little from recording songs and albums and didn't own Copyrights for them either.

Beatles and more recordings are own by others even now. ~ 1/2 Beatles back catalog was own by Michal Jackson them Family after death then they sold to Sony I'm told.
Is Why Prince change name to Symbol and recording new versions for most of his back catalog because of the "war" he had w/ Warner.

Many Ticket prices were "low" because most people won't/can't pay more "back then" and had to fill the largest venue in each city.
Inflated Prices Now is often to Limit size of venue and what type of people will go. Often want to limit Scalping too.

Many Bands/Artists went into "clubs" that maybe hold 100-500 people max to get money later. Was at top of the charts filling big venues, Joan Jet, Bad Co, and more went to crap bars in big and small towns barely covering money to go there years later.

Side Note: Is why X Band/Artist tries stopping Y to use Z song but fails badly because they Don't Own the Copyright of the recording. © Owners don't care about X and get Money, often Big Money, to License nearly any use of the recordings.

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MidEngineManiac JUL 26, 09:56 AM
Streaming hear something dont cost no 4 grand.

As an added bonus, when I have had enough the thing has an "off" button.
Wichita JUL 26, 12:54 PM
If people want to pay that, then ok.

I have been to some good concerts that cost under $50 a ticket lately.

Yes, people are willing, but not happily, paying for some inflated prices. Especially sports venues and tourist destinations.

I was at a place this weekend where it cost $4.50 for a small bottle of water. Sodas were $6 and cheap food like cotton candy was $11.

There weren't many people eating or drinking there. Though a line to fill up your own water bottle at a water fountain was noticeable.

Go to movie theaters and you barely get people in line wanting some of that $30 soda and popcorn.

Maybe that's the point. They have found the right price to maximize profit with as little staff and effort and product inventory as possible.

Go to any minor league ball park game and the seats aren't even 10% full, yet $18 for a plastic cup of beer is normal.

I really don't get it.

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82-T/A [At Work] JUL 26, 01:30 PM
Who exactly is the boss? Old boss same as the new boss? The Who? I won't get fooled again... I actually prefer the Guess Who (No Time is a great song)

As Wichita said... there are many concerts that are dirt-cheap and better. I know this is going back a ways... but at Caulder Race Track in South Florida, I used to go to concerts for $5 bucks and routinely saw everyone from Rare Earth to America, to whatever. Yeah... it was 1999-2000 (hahaha), and those bands were not the most popular at the time, but it was cheap and I had fun.

Even still, I saw Heart at the Hard Rock Casino just a few years ago, and it was ~$35 bucks.


"Go to any minor league ball park game and the seats arent even 10% full, yet $18 for a plastic cup of beer is normal. I really don't get it."

Back in the day, I worked for the Miami Dolphins... but my first year there, I actually worked for the stadium, and my desk was AT the stadium. This was during the time when the Florida Marlins (now Miami Marlins) actually played on our football field with movable stands and dugouts. The Marlins would occasionally have some weekday afternoon games during the season, and we'd go up into the stands and watch the game while we ate our lunch. We'd often get lunch from one of the concession stands and just use our employee discount (which was only like 35% off if I remember correctly.

But what you say was literally what we saw... there were times when the stands were only 10% filled. We often wondered where the money even came from. For the most part, those games are considered a total loss. Usually the tickets were given away to school kids that were doing an outing, or groups / corporate events... that and retired people, or die-hard fans. The money that paid for these games, came from the other blockbuster games, and the advertisers that paid for spots during the televising of the game. Most people would record those afternoon games, and then watch them when they got home, and that's where the revenue came from. For the most part, with all of that aside, those games basically broke even, but the franchise would make their money from the big weekend games, with the "legendary" match-ups.