Mattashell
05-15-2002, 02:30 AM
Well, The Who will be playing near here this summer, but I won't be going to that show. I can't afford to pay sixty dollars for an evening of entertainment, and I wouldn't pay it if I could. What do people think about this. More than twenty dollars is too much to pay for concert tickets. If I really want to see the show badly $25, that is it, no higher.
The pricipal is this. Wealthy people can and will buy tickets and the show will sell out and they will make a maximum prophit, mission accomplished, but is it a successful artists role to act like a corperation trying to earn the highest prophit possible.
Poor people won't be able to by tickets at all, and those in the middle range can scrape it if their willing to sacrifise money that could effect their budget. They are telling their fans, basicly, "If your not one of the rich, we're shutting you out." Many established artists charge similar prices, or higher, and the thing is when you're a rich and famous celebrity, it is your responsibility that your money and fame came from your fans. Each one could have bought someone else's record but instead they bought yours. You owe them your respect for that because your just a nobody without them, yet this is the typical treatment, and the sad part is, these people are already unimaginably rich. They don't really need to make the kind of money these shows bring in. I doubt it improves their lifestyle in any way.
The who is a band that is famous for their working class roots, but like many before them, Madonna, Prince, Kiss, Pink Floyd, John Couger, many many more, they've lost touch with that. This is the attitude of people who sell their songs to advertisers of pharmacuticals. Also they are far past their prime. Sixty bucks and they won't be anywhere near their best. I'll buy a live album, one recorded in the sixties, and listen to it at home, and save forty bucks, and I can listen to it as many times as I want, whenever I want, for the rest of my life.
The pricipal is this. Wealthy people can and will buy tickets and the show will sell out and they will make a maximum prophit, mission accomplished, but is it a successful artists role to act like a corperation trying to earn the highest prophit possible.
Poor people won't be able to by tickets at all, and those in the middle range can scrape it if their willing to sacrifise money that could effect their budget. They are telling their fans, basicly, "If your not one of the rich, we're shutting you out." Many established artists charge similar prices, or higher, and the thing is when you're a rich and famous celebrity, it is your responsibility that your money and fame came from your fans. Each one could have bought someone else's record but instead they bought yours. You owe them your respect for that because your just a nobody without them, yet this is the typical treatment, and the sad part is, these people are already unimaginably rich. They don't really need to make the kind of money these shows bring in. I doubt it improves their lifestyle in any way.
The who is a band that is famous for their working class roots, but like many before them, Madonna, Prince, Kiss, Pink Floyd, John Couger, many many more, they've lost touch with that. This is the attitude of people who sell their songs to advertisers of pharmacuticals. Also they are far past their prime. Sixty bucks and they won't be anywhere near their best. I'll buy a live album, one recorded in the sixties, and listen to it at home, and save forty bucks, and I can listen to it as many times as I want, whenever I want, for the rest of my life.