All the millennials I know grew up going to random basement shows and now they've mostly all graduated to seeing bands at random dive bars. Those mega venues have always seemed like they primarily appealed to boomers, especially considering the kinds of bands that tend to play them. I love me some Bruce Springsteen but I'm not paying $200 to watch him relive his Glory Days.
I'm not paying 200 bucks to see anybody live, ticket prices today are completely absurd. Call me a boomer, but i was socialized in a time when i could see RATM or Radiohead play for 40 bucks and even that felt pricey back then.
Yup. My first concert was like 50 dollars and it was a crazy good lineup. Still, you can find tickets for around 20-50 dollars bur they can't be like super famous bands
It was worth it when it was a decade ago and a nosebleed ticket was 50$, but these days even a nosebleed ticket is 150, and Bruce isn't getting any younger.
Or small concert venues. Still overpriced drinks, but reasonable ticket prices with only General Admission.
$200 a ticket I better get a front row with a backstage pass and signed merch.
I would love to see AC/DC live, but not for what they charge these days.
Good luck paying 200$ for a major concert these days. I vaguely know some people who were talkinga bout paying something terrifying like.. I really want to say 1500 dollars but that has to be wrong because that's just too unhinged to be real, but that's what I want to say. I don't remember what act it was, but it was someone big.
"One $16 Vodka Soda please"
Watches as the bar tender pours 1.5 oz of titos
:jokerfication:
So proud of my little gen z buddies carrying on the millennial tradition of killing industries
I was gonna say
If I have to pay out the ass for tickets, I'm certainly not going to pay out the ass for drinks
I'll just pre-game in the parking lot like an adult
I went to see the band panchiko with my buddy and she had bought the tickets so I said I’ll buy some drinks. I was like oh just to start things off I’ll get two cans 12 oz cans of spiked seltzer. My man hands me the receipt and it was $38.
Definitely smuggling shots in next time fuck that
Oh oh and also in spite of the soaring prices a lot of bands can’t even afford to go on tour anymore it’s not making them enough money even with sold out shows there was a time in the 90s when small time bands no one heard of could tour the country and stay solvent now bands with whole ass Wikipedia pages and critically acclaimed albums like animal collective have been cancelling tours because it’s too expensive
Definitely smuggling shots in next time fuck that
this is the real strat. pre-gaming & bringing a bunch of airplane bottles into a venue is what my friends usually do and surprisingly not once has anyone doing security at any of the dozens of places we've seen shows at has ever taken them out of their bag (or my pockets the few times someone's not had the space in their bag and I had to carry their 300ml of vodka in for them).
I do that a lot of times and end up missing the whole show.
I dont really like shows anyways :shrug-outta-hecks:
I'll just have my own show with schnapps and vodka
In fact, forget the show
It's incredible that venues are still getting away with this, the only reason they're able to is because most people have had it drilled into their skulls that it's not possible to have a good time without alcohol. It's 2023, hit the vape in the parking garage, you'll be good for 3+ hours and it will likely cost you pennies. Hell, just do shots out of your trunk before walking inside and you should be good for a few hours.
I'm not hard up for cash but I refuse to pay more than $10 for a beer that isn't some kind of micro brewery limited release. Any time I see someone plastered at a sporting event I wonder how much they spent to get there.
It’s 2023, hit the vape in the parking garage, you’ll be good for 3+ hours and it will likely cost you pennies.
goddamn what kinda Gamma-16 THC vape are you hitting that a single session will last you 3+ hours :hero-of-socialist-labor: (don't ask me how long I just spent looking through all of the emojis for the goddamn USSR Master Hemp Farmer badge I swore we had as an emoji - if I'd found it, I would've used it....)
I grow my own, currently working on grand daddy purple and 0.10 g in a dry herb vape is enough to turn me into a three-toed sloth at least twice. I also don't use cannabis more than once a day and never more than two days in a row so I have no tolerance.
oh shit you really do deserve the USSR Master Hemp Farmer badge :rat-salute:
I don't drink or smoke and have a great time at shows. Get in the pit if that's your thing or just vibe on the side.
Good point, I'm in a legal state so generally nobody cares as long as you're not ripping fat clouds in the faces of bystanders but it could definitely be dangerous elsewhere, especially for minorities.
Ticket: $550 for a ticket that has already been sold and resold 3 times for a nosebleed "obstructed view" where your chair is literally 2 inches away from a pillar
Parking (because there's no public transit): $50 to be parked on top of a puddle
Line: Waiting outside on the grass next to a freeway for 3 hours for the "security checkpoint" where they shine a flashlight at your bag and then wave you through a malfunctioning metal detector
Sound quality: BSZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Beer: $20 for a Coors Light that you had a to wait an hour for
But yes it's Gen Z's lack of alcohol consumption that's killing the concert industry. Definitely that.
Ahh, porky price gouging things out of existence and blaming the pertinent generation
A tale as old as time 🥰
It's not fair! Profiteering is supposed to be profitable, not cause an economic collapse because capitalist goons so high on their religious faith in the market can't conceive of the idea that there is a point at which people can no longer afford your price gouging!
Of all the drugs that could be socially acceptable, it had to be the one that makes you addicted, fat, annoying, dangerous and dead. Cannabis is better in every way.
Alcohol is pretty amazing for socializing, dancing, and drinking games though
It tastes like dirt, but Kava Kava is a pretty good social lubricant.
It wasn't bad. I don't remember the experience really, but I remember it wasn't bad. I wonder if it's been decried as a tier 1 ultra death poison that will go back in time and make your kids pregnant and murdered and lesbians and communists yet.
It's been a while, but I remember it being like dirt pepper.😅 If it was more widespreadly available, I'd probably drink it again. But I was getting it mail order and it's just a pain in the ass to keep up with.
I had some friends who were always finding weird ass entheogens that I'd never heard of even though I have an anthro degree. I don't know how they did it or where they found out about them, but they found some neat stuff.
lol, probably erowid.org. There's a lot out there. luckily kava scratched the itch for the time being that I needed it and I never ventured too far into the wild. I don't know if I could have handled acid or shrooms anymore past my early 20's. :doomer:
Plus you can pretty much guarantee nobody is going to steal your dirt water while you're in the bathroom.
eh well some wines are fine to me (but i like a good wine with pasta) i hate being buzzed and i would hate getting drunk
Kava Kava is rather interesting. If you drink too much it will just make you tired, but if you hit the right sweet spot it's got a kind of a warm, relaxed, blissful feel to it. You get the social courage and ease of alcohol without taking that hit to your intelligence. I used to put mine in plastic flasks and take slugs throughout the night. In between the silly faces I'm sure I made, in response to the taste, I had a great time.
Yeah I like a little weed to chill but any moderate amount just makes me forget what I was saying a bunch of times. I just get annoyed and want to go back to being able to talk coherently. Sometimes I also get a smile kinda stuck on my face but internally I don't even feel like smiling at all
Eventually you extort people so much you run out of their disposable income to extort.
The problem with price gouging is eventually you run out of other people's money.
i don't think i have ever paid more than $25 for a concert, except one time i dropped like $70 to see tool at a big stadium, which was something i promised myself i would do. it was, indeed, like being on mushrooms. i bought no drinks, parked in a neighborhood and walked through the cold (free).
my favorite act i ever saw was $17 (explosions in the sky).
but generally speaking, i find venues to be uncomfortable. the seats are uncomfortable. the bathrooms are fucked. there are too many people, so we're all packed and stacked. every type of refreshment takes 20 minutes to get and is piss poor in quality while jacked up 3-5x in price. it's stupid. i'm a geriatric millenial, and these assholes did this to themselves. it's the same thing with malls. malls everywhere are fucking dead. the only edge malls had/have over online shopping was the social aspect of a market place. my first jobs were in a mall. and guess they fucking murdered the social aspect in the 90s. the security guards were assholes to "kids" and young adults who were just there to hangout. the shop managers pushed to have unattended minors and "slackers" systemically harassed/banned. even young adult employees were directed to leave if they weren't going to be shopping when they weren't on shift.
and guess what, we all grew up seeing the mall as a hostile environment to casual socializing, so we didn't go there to casually socialize. why wouldn't i just go online or to a big box to make my purchase, since it's not like i'm going to run into anyone i know at the mall and catch up. why do all that extra walking and dealing with the giant parking lot? in their effort to make their location full of high-value spenders, they degraded the experience.
same with stadium venues. after someone's brain marinates long enough to see that a situation is a losing value proposition, they adapt. if i wanted to run a successful venue, i would simply not try to rob everyone there blind.
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New Target Acquired:lenin-shining::porky-scared: Whaaa?! No! That's not how it works. Price goes up, profit goes up. That's Economics 101!
Why would i pay for a pint of piss at 12 dollars when i can get 12 cans of piss for close to that price
Pro punk tip: drink out of the sink in the bathroom. Even if they purposefully only give you hot water, do it anyway.
Brb putting a shot of whiskey in the sink and trying to slurp it up without coughing
Inb4 Facebook boomers start saying that the reason they have to make life suck for young people is because "as you can see, it'll push them to drink more booze and help the economy!"
