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[YY1]

How & why did top attraction concert tickets go from $4.50 to hundreds of dollars each? Their price sure didn’t follow the inflation curve.

I actually have a partial answer for that.

It's because any album released is now basically free to download via you tube or various other means.
This also applies to an artist's back catalog.

Owning physical media is now unimportant to many, many music consumers.
The exceptions are special releases and to an extent, vinyl.

Instead of airplay and album/single sales royalty checks rolling in, now the difference is made up for with what seem like exorbitant concert ticket prices.

The ticket master monopoly sure doesn't help, though.

 

[Hey-O]

I actually have a partial answer for that.

It's because any album released is basically free to download via you tube or various other means.
This also applies to an artist's back catalog.

Owning physical media in now unimportant to many, many music consumers.
The exceptions are special releases and to an extent, vinyl.

Instead of airplay and album/single sales royalty checks rolling in, not the difference is made up for with what seem like exorbitant concert ticket prices.

The ticket master monopoly sure doesn't help, though.

I refuse to feed their machine with my money. First, my view point is not inline with most of them and feeding them only makes them pass out more useless information as if they have all the answers. Most are to stupid to do anything else, as far as I'm concerned. That's one reason many of them life in California, spread the word to like minded people.

 

[YY1]

I actually predicted this back around 1995-ish when MP3 format started to gain popularity.

I said that artists had better have a good live show, or come up with some very interesting packaging for their hard copies...or no one will give them money.

This disc is CD on one side, vinyl for a turn table on the other-



This CD case has a built in 3D viewer-



...and now those $12 1982 concert tickets cost $180 (instead of $45 per inflation).

 

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I have a huge stack of concert tickets mostly from Cobo Hall because my buddy's dad worked in the ticket office he would get us incredible seats. Before ticetmaster.
but I have a ton from and all the little venues like harpos or Pine Knob or even the token lounge where i shared a beer with steve mariot from humble pie.

 

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The opening day of the 1904 world fair in St. Louis