There’s no denying it: life is fucking costly. Once we’re not attempting to determine methods to mortgage the MetalSucks mansion a 3rd time simply so we are able to purchase some fucking eggs, we’re struggling to justify ticket prices identical to the remainder of you! So once we posted our weekend reader ballot asking the way you, the MetalSucks reader felt about ticket costs, we had been fairly positive we knew how issues had been going to shake out.
After amassing your responses, it’s painfully apparent that most of the time you guys would reasonably spend time in a small venue supporting a smaller or mid-level band than shell out a ridiculous sum of cash to attend one thing like Black Sabbath’s final gig ever or a bloated pageant someplace.
Trying by means of plenty of your responses on social media, plenty of you set the blame on the monopolistic existence of Ticketmaster and Stay Nation. Due to their stranglehold on not simply the market, but additionally their grip on venues everywhere in the U.S., it’s exhausting to not see why persons are livid at that company. Take Fb consumer Kevin Dixon, for instance, who mentioned the next about company greed affecting ticket costs:
“It’s not the ticket costs which can be the difficulty. It’s the ‘processing charges’ and all that BS that usually instances double the worth of the ticket. The music neighborhood, as an entire together with all genres from pop to metallic, want to come back collectively and say sufficient is sufficient. The ticket sellers are those making the cash, not the artists.”
Because of this, the largest cohort of respondents mentioned they like attending smaller, extra inexpensive exhibits than splurge for the large gigs. And whereas a few of you understood why the prices exist, folks like Luis Tirado Jr. usually think about an even bigger present if it’s a particular occasion or one thing.
“I’m not paying lots of of {dollars} for a metallic live performance. It’s ridiculous to cost a lot if it’s a daily present with a gap band. If it’s one thing particular, like an anniversary tour for an album hitting 10 or 20 years, that’s totally different. An everyday present charging $200? Exhausting no.”
In the end, all of us agree that insane ticket costs are an enormous bummer and a hindrance to attending to see among the bands we’d prefer to see stay. Or as Josh Kain put so eloquently:
“Uggggggghhh it fuckin sucks.”
