Does streaming music equate to high concert ticket prices

There are so many great shows with eye level viewing in great sounding venues. Tickets usually around $45 to $70. I stay away from the big shows and just go to the great sounding theaters. So much talent out there. Look forward to hearing "E" (The Eels) next month at the Neptune a great sounding venue in Seattle. Other recent examples this year, Flaming Lips, Aldous Harding (amazing will never miss when she comes to town), Pineapple Thief (sensational), and I won’t name the "meh" shows I went to this year. Get there 10 to 15 minutes before doors open and should be able to find a great place to hear the show. With that said, the sound is so superior in my home. At shows I have to wear earplugs as it is too loud. What I don’t get at home is the magic that happens when a room full of fans connect with the artist’s sound with their attention in this present moment and the artist is also in the moment. It’s the best! Of course we are streaming the setlist we created as we drive to the show.

I just paid an exorbitant amount of money for one Luis Miguel ticket from TicketBastard and not from a reseller for my Wife because Thank God I have a job and can afford it. 4 years ago the same show at a smaller venue here in Phoenix with a better view cost us 1/3 the price. For two tickets no less !

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I think it’s partially the fact that most tickets for concerts go through one company, the fact that bands saw scalpers make off with huge payoffs and the fact, I feel most importantly, that your interested in older music that you listened to when you were younger. So these bands see their older and richer demographic able to pay what they might for a Broadway show and more, really to relive their youth and memories. A 16 year old you, would never, never go see a 60 year old Aerosmith. 

Thanks for this thread as I just checked some of the local action. I just paid $79.50 all in with fees for the Cowboy Junkies sitting seven rows back from stage. That is not a lot of money for a show IMO. Huge fan, seen before (was just thinking about the show today out of the blue, crazy), it will be super! The sound in this theater is outstanding, and Cowboy Junkies have always cared about the quality of their sound. There last few albums have been terrific, and I expect the same from their next album which drops (as the kids say) June 2nd. This is an audiophiles orgasmic experience IMO.

Forget those stadium tours and get out there and enjoy artists who could use your support in venues that sound good. A trick is to go to the quality theater group and subscribe to their newsletter so you know when someone you are interested in is coming to get great seats. Support live music it is great experience!

Never buy resale tickets! Do not support those that buy to re-sell.

Ticket prices have been going up steadily for quite a while before streaming became big and hit ridiculous levels a while back. The big-name bands are charging what the market will bear and have learned that there are a lot of people with more money than sense.