# I just paid the most for a face value concert ticket I've ever paid.
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**Created:** [December 11, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441 "2016-12-11T16:33:10Z")
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### Author:  [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/1 "2016-12-11T16:33:10Z")
I just bought two tickets to Roger Water’s upcoming 2017 concert tour. I paid, by the time all the fees are added in, just a few cents over $227 per ticket. Ticket face value was $199. Tickets are for Row N, floor, darn near the center, 13 rows from the front.
I think my prior top ticket price paid had been $160-something for Springsteen.
Cheapest tickets for Roger Waters were $125 plus fees, up in the nosebleed seats.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/2 "2016-12-11T16:39:51Z")
Never been to Broadway, I guess. 🙂
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### Author:  [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/3 "2016-12-11T16:47:24Z")
LOL. Yeah, I’ve paid more there, but I wasn’t counting B’way type shows. I’ve paid a \*\*lot \*\*more there, and it wasn’t always worth it.
Just comparing to other live music performances. I know the scale keeps rising, but $199 still surprised me for a concert tour ticket face value.
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### Author:  [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/4 "2016-12-11T18:29:22Z")
Please return to let us know if it was worth it.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/5 "2016-12-12T10:36:06Z")
Where are you seeing him? I paid about $100 for my ticket to see Waters at the Tacoma Dome - seventh row in the bleachers, dead center. The nosebleeds were only in the $40 range. (I also saw him do The Wall live there in 2011, and I think I paid about $80 for an upper bleachers seat.)
Most I’ve ever paid was about $200 after fees for Springsteen earlier this year at Key Arena.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/6 "2016-12-12T11:56:41Z")
I’m guessing you never bought a season subscription to the Metropolitan Opera.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/7 "2016-12-12T13:19:07Z")
Put into perspective, four of us went to see **Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band** _twice_ last year and the 8 tickets _plus beers_ we bought came to less than one Roger Waters ticket, or maybe just a bit over.
That said, I wouldn’t mind seeing Waters.😉
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### Author:  [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/9 "2016-12-12T13:41:37Z")
This summer I paid $600 per ticket to see Guns N Roses, 8th row center. I would have been happy with cheaper seats, but my husband wanted to be close. Luckily, it was a GREAT show.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/10 "2016-12-12T14:14:47Z")
> [@melondeca](#):
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> This summer I paid $600 per ticket to see Guns N Roses, 8th row center. I would have been happy with cheaper seats, but my husband wanted to be close. Luckily, it was a GREAT show.
If you can’t smell Axl, it’s just not worth goin’, man. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Mavic\_Chen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavic_Chen)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/11 "2016-12-12T17:10:28Z")
\I just paid almost £200 for a pair of tickets to see Kraftwerk next June in the UK. I thought that was enough!\
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/12 "2016-12-12T17:53:03Z")
I don’t know if any of this is something to brag about. Except in the “I have more money than sense” way. No way I can afford those prices, nor would I pay it if I could.
I got a kick a couple weeks back, in the NFL pregame, Curt Menefee made a comment to the effect of “we’ve all seen Hamilton”. No, Mr Richie Rich, we all haven’t. Us normal folk don’t have the money, or the time to fly to NYC and wait around hoping to get cheaper tickets.
But enjoy your show!
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/13 "2016-12-12T18:51:47Z")
Funny. I took the family to NYC last March and we saw two shows (three out of four of us were having a birthday - seriously). My daughter was bummed that I hadn’t chosen Hamilton… and as nearly as I can tell I missed the era of reasonably priced tickets by just a couple of weeks. So I explained it thus: “If we’d brought our own food and slept in the Park and walked here, one of us could have afforded a ticket, and it wouldn’t have been you…”
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/14 "2016-12-12T23:12:55Z")
I paid $225 a seat for 3rd row seats to see The Eagles about 20 years ago. So worth it.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/15 "2016-12-13T01:11:16Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#):
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> I paid $225 a seat for 3rd row seats to see The Eagles about 20 years ago. So worth it.
I paid nothing for front row tickets to the Stones about 20 years ago. That was pretty cool.
[Except for almost getting burned in a fire](http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1997/Rolling-Stones-Concert-On-Fire/id-d60cd973beeb218d81453727723856b5). That might not have been worth it.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/16 "2016-12-13T01:38:04Z")
The most I ever paid was $450 for front row for The Who’s 2013 Quad tour. Not just front row, but right in front of Pete. Worth every penny.
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### Author:  [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/17 "2016-12-13T01:46:07Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> I don’t know if any of this is something to brag about. Except in the “I have more money than sense” way. No way I can afford those prices, nor would I pay it if I could.
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> I got a kick a couple weeks back, in the NFL pregame, Curt Menefee made a comment to the effect of “we’ve all seen Hamilton”. No, Mr Richie Rich, we all haven’t. Us normal folk don’t have the money, or the time to fly to NYC and wait around hoping to get cheaper tickets.
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> But enjoy your show!
I don’t know if I would say I have more money than sense. My husband and I have decent jobs and no dependants. Seeing concerts is what we like to do so we do it well.
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### Author:  [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/18 "2016-12-13T14:06:08Z")
Back in 2005 I got two tickets to see U2 in DC. A buddy of mine was in town so I got them for him. They were normally $35 each, I paid $115 each, plus $15 in shipping for the tickets. It was supposed to be a sold out show, we were in the nosebleed seats and no one was around us. Good show, but man was that expensive.
I had thought about seeing Iron Maiden this past March in NYC, but it was ‘sold out’. The cheapest ticket I could find was almost $500, for a a $50 ticket. Yep, not paying that.
I’ve stopped going to shows because of crap like that. Not being able to get tickets from the outlets, but only from second hand sources, and they want way too much for them. I know there’s no way they sell all the good seats in a few minutes, only to have them show up on Stubhub a few seconds later for 2-3+ times the amount.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/19 "2016-12-13T14:20:14Z")
> [@leftfield6](#):
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> I just bought two tickets to Roger Water’s upcoming 2017 concert tour.
All that money and you don’t even get to see Roger Waters. ☹
😉
I paid $140 to see Sam Rockwell in Fool for Love. Unfortunately the most memorable part was this oblivious woman who didn’t turn her phone off despite many posted and announced warnings. It rang maybe six times before she realized and silenced it. Till it rang again a few minutes later. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/20 "2016-12-13T14:24:10Z")
Never paid more than $50 for a concert: including fees it’s never been more than $60 or so. There are very few artists that I’d pay more than that for closer seats since they’d already be in a large enough venue that it wouldn’t seem very intimate.
I’ve never bought aftermarket tickets because I just don’t trust that they’d be valid even using trusted sites.
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### Author:  [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-paid-the-most-for-a-face-value-concert-ticket-ive-ever-paid/774441/21 "2016-12-15T02:05:02Z")
I considered paying up to $350 per ticket to see the Rolling Stones here in Las Vegas a few months ago. But decided it was just too much.
So I entered the local public radio station drawing for a pair.
AND WON!
Then, two days before the show, Mick got laryngitis and the show was canceled. :mad:
It was the biggest disappointment of 2016. (Until Nov. 8.)
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