Well, when we hear about voguevixen plotting to shave Bieber’s arms without his consent, I promise, I will be outraged. Until then, meh.
When the object of interest is something, like a boy band, where the appeal is usually strongly adorational and powerfully sexual by it’s very nature, to have an adult invested in that context is unusual. It’s not exactly like a grown man or woman collecting children’s toys, it’s a step beyond.
Once again, StubHub is bad.
I saw Boyo Jim, Summer of Love, front row tickets at Double-entry-palooza. Believe me, we weren’t SQEE’ing…
Is that an assertion you are sticking to?
How so? I have no interaction with these people?!
justinbieberpubes or whatever that blog is. 100% not me.
They cut your tongue out for that, you know.
And make you be a slave, and don’t let anybody address you, except to give you a direct order. 
You drop $ 950 on a ticket to see a boy band and you are seriously asking this question?
The appeal of boy bands to their female fans is overwhelmingly primarily sexual and adorational. For a 30 or 40 something mature woman to be enough of a superfan to drop almost a thousand bucks for a single ticket indicates an extremely strong attraction to the band or one of it’s members.
It’s your money, do as you wish, but don’t pretend your attraction to them isn’t sexual. You’re an adult woman sexually fetishizing teen boys. Like the another poster said, if that’s your freak flag let it fly.
Um, is that some kind of porn film festival?
I can’t think of a single act that I would pay $950 to see. Not criticizing or anything, just marvelling - different strokes for different folks.
I can think of a couple (which shall remain nameless) but they are acts that I’ve followed forever and that have had importance in my life over a number of years.
I could see spending that on maybe, season tickets for a sports team, but they’d have to be kickass seats.
Or if it was a single thing, maybe a playoff game. (Stanley Cup, Super Bowl)
Indeed! Nicely done.
You know, as the parent of a teenager, I spent a fair amount of time and money at teeny-bopper concerts. We crowd-surfed at Green Day (which honestly my adult friend and I and the two kids had a blast at), I was probably the oldest person at the Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance shows, and I wound up babysitting a drunk mom with a Tyson Ritter crush at All-American Rejects (the pathos of whom may be influencing my opinion of voguevixen). This isn’t about hating on pop music or even “kid” music. It’s about appropriate enjoyment of music, which for a grown person, should primarily consist of enjoying the music, not fantasizing about the musicians, especially when they are young enough to be your kids.
I was happy to buy posters and magazines for my daughter, because being crushed out on these musicians was age appropriate. Even at that, if she’d requested Billy Joe Armstrong *bedding *any time after the age of 13 or so, I’d have had serious concerns about developmental issues. We can politely pretend this is about personal preference, but… no.
I can think of a few that, if performed on me, might be worth it.
So, back to the subject - Have you ever looked into whether the hosting venue (if it’s not too far a drive) opens its box office for the on-sale at the same time as Ticketmaster? If they do, there’s a very high chance the box office is selling tickets it never released to the public for internet or Ticketmaster sales. Also, internet sold tickets are not necessarily best seats, either. You may have a better chance of getting seats in decent sections by going to a place that still sells Ticketmaster tickets in person.
Granted, the system may be vastly different than it was back when I worked a Ticketmaster booth in a music store in the 90’s - but we would often start requesting tickets 5 minutes before the sale was supposed to start, and they would often start printing a couple minutes early. We would request 4 at a time and just quietly let them print and set them under the counter until the “official” time. If it was a concert any employees wanted, we would just hold the tickets for ourselves. If it wasn’t, we would just collect the cash from customers as if the tickets had just printed. It wasn’t that often we got front row seats, unless it was simply a less popular concert. Usually they were definitely in the front center floor section, but most people don’t seem to realize the venue can hold whatever seats it wants to for box-office only sales.
Definitely give the venue a call and tell them what happened with your ticket. They may not have any recourse for you, but you can take the opportunity to find out if they do any sales on-premises for large concerts - it most likely would be worth the trip for tickets to big concerts you really want. The lines are much shorter than they used to be, because not many people know how low their chances are of getting good seats from internet sales, plus, they’re lazy.
Sometimes, you can check again for seats that are released for a sold-out show a couple days before the show, too. If the band has seats held for their own promotions, for contest winners, VIP’s and such, and decides not to use a block of those seats, they are sometimes released for sale during the week before the show.
At least, that was how things worked a century ago, during my concert going days, when I worked a second job at a music store just so I could get tickets!
So, working in a hospital is “saving lives”. Worked as a temp for Wells Fargo mortgages once. I guess I should probably shoot myself.
They were on SNL a couple weeks ago, and I was embarrassed for anybody who liked them. Not only was the singing first week American Idol material, but they all kept grabbing their junk. I guess teenage girls think that’s sexy.
I volunteered at a hospital, filling out forms. I guess if I had gotten the wrong procedure filled in, I might have gotten people hurt!