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Old 01-27-2003, 12:45 PM
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BUT assuming tix were around the same "amount of money" back then (and the prices have just simply risen with inflation etc.),
Actually, no...the percentage of income it takes to go to a concert nowadays is probably 5x's what it was just 15 years ago.

I remember buying tickets to the 1987 FMac tour for $20 each, sat in what would now be $90-120 seats. Considering the "service charges" at Ticketmaster nowadays is more than some TICKET prices at concerts I went to in the late '70's, it's well beyond "inflation"...it's greed.
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