Concert Tickets

[KarateKen]

You might have heard that Metallica is doing a residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas this fall.  The ticket prices are high, with some being over 4,000 dollars a ticket before taxes.  The cheapest are about 1k a ticket, but this can change, for better or worse, with the resale market.  With the cost of sports, music, and other live entertainment being so much now, what is the most you would pay for your dream live entertainment experience? What is the highest you ever paid for a ticket to an event?  

I once paid 500 dollars per ticket for the VIP experience and floor seats (not front row) to see Guns N Roses when they partly got back together in 2016.  The show was in San Diego, at the old Chargers stadium which has since been torn down. It was a lot at the time but seems like a bargain now compared to what some of the tickets are going for. 

[Patrick]

I think I'm in the same neighborhood as you - mid hundreds. This was probably helped by COVID and having a kid. If not, living in Los Angeles and having some venues walkable, I'd have gone to a bunch more shows by now. We have tickets for My Chemical Romance in October as my wife is a fan. That might be the most expensive, at least in present day dollars vs. inflation adjusted.  Those are a bit under $500.

We just saw the New York Rangers (vs. the Kings) earlier this year, and I bought the tickets a few hours before the game - they were under $99 (including taxes and feessuite tickets, where we had a suite and seats at the front of the suite. I think we'll try to do that more often to see the Rangers and Lakers and maybe the Yankees when they are in Anaheim. We went to a Yankees/Dodgers game, and it wasn't as fun as it could have been. But we went to a 3 game set in San Diego two years ago, and that was really fun. Going to see them in San Francisco this month for the opening series (not Opening Day, though). 

I'm also going to try to go to some of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, but am curious to see how much that ends up being.

Edited yesterday at 12:03 AM by Patrick