the priciest / most expensive concert ticket you've bought

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most shows I go to (and I go to a lot) are between $8 - $20 so it makes those occasional expensive ones easier to justify.

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 13 August 2015 23:04 (eight years ago) link

I paid over $100 to see Leonard Cohen.

self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 13 August 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link

€250 to see Roger Waters doing The Wall a couple of years ago.

anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Friday, 14 August 2015 08:03 (eight years ago) link

Fairrrrly sure I haven't gone over £25. Think both Perfume and Kyary were that plus train fare to get there. Residents possibly the same?

emil.y, Friday, 14 August 2015 11:21 (eight years ago) link

Apart from festivals (which I haven't really been to in years anyway) I think maybe £35 to see Motorhead/Damned/Girlschool a few years ago?

Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 14 August 2015 11:24 (eight years ago) link

Apart from festivals, I can't think of any I've 'pushed the boat out' for. Quite a few that would cost a fortune if they did a gig now, though.

Even the Velvet Underground wasn't a silly price.

Mark G, Friday, 14 August 2015 12:18 (eight years ago) link

The Prince one (the Lovesexy/Black Album Wembley Arena one) might have been a bit pricey, but I can't remember how much.

Mark G, Friday, 14 August 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link

daren't think about how much it would cost the promoter to get VU back together for one last tour

Merdeyeux, Friday, 14 August 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link

I remember Masada at Yoshi's being really expensive compared to what I was used to...$30-35? Compared to what single show tickets cost these days, festival passes like FIMAV and Big Ears seem like really good value for the dollar.

rack of lamb of god (WilliamC), Friday, 14 August 2015 12:32 (eight years ago) link

I *think* my highest was the same Prince tour that mookie and VG referred to -- the show I saw was at the then-MCI Center in Washington, DC. I was pretty high up, but it was worth every penny. I may have paid a bit more for one of the McCartney shows I've been to.

I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Friday, 14 August 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link

Around £250 to see Madonna couple years back, Golden circle, early entry, "special gift" (rubbish watch). I've been a fan half my life and never seen her, thought I'd go all out. Absolutely worth it, minus the watch.

Leonard Pine, Friday, 14 August 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link

When Bjork went on the Vespertine tour, first one since the 90s, I freaked out and ended up spending around $400 on tickets to a show of hers in another state. I got 8 tickets, scalped half of them, and flew me a 3 friends to Boston to see her play. It was incredible.

I tried the trick again later when Weezer came back and lost a bunch of money on it.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 August 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link

$120 to see the first nine inch nails tour in five years (tension 2013). honestly, the NIN show i paid less for (like 40ish with fees for lights in the sky 2008) was a bit better, but the seats for this one were p great loge box ones at TD garden. and godspeed you! black emperor opened, which was dope.

slothroprhymes, Friday, 14 August 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link

NIN/Jane's Addiction was probably my second most expensive, Mansfield MA in 2009. I must have paid somewhere in the $50s.

jmm, Friday, 14 August 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link

7g of pot for Radiohead in 2003

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 14 August 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link


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