Why Are Concert Ticket Prices So High?

[DudeAsInCool]

The Times Online examines the issue...

What an awful racket

The £150 ticket is now common, and with diggers, liggers, pullers and scalpers grabbing their share, things are far from tickety-boo for concert-goers, says Dan Cairns

This evening, in Cardiff, the British leg of Madonna’s 56-date Confessions world tour begins. The cheapest ticket for tonight’s show costs £55 — for a vertiginous, crow’s-nest vantage point, way up in what Americans call the “nosebleed” seats. When the most expensive tickets went on sale at a whopping £150, the complaints were like faint squeals compared with the howls of protest that greeted a similar price structure when Madonna last toured Britain. That’s the thing about shock. Survive the initial impact — to your reputation, if you’re Madonna; to your wallet, if you’re a fan — and you’ll ride the subsequent blows with ease.

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[method77]

I paid 50euros to see Massive Attack last month. Assholes

...not Massive Attack

[Shawn]

Rolling Stones show for the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend sold out today in Regina in less than 20 minutes.

$100-300 per seat - before poaching.

[method77]

same prices here last month

and was cancelled

[DudeAsInCool]

same prices here last month

and was cancelled

I saved your ticket stub