How much would you spend on a ticket to see your favourite band?

My favorite band, AC/DC… whatever it takes. If they are in town and back row tickets are $1000 I’ll be there. $35 is just a round of drinks any other night, and you are guaranteed to piss it away.

@poisonedantidote True, but $1000, really? For back row tickets, that means little to no atmosphere and a worse experience than simply watching said gig at home doesn’t it?
AC/DC are great by the way.

@Paul Yup, it wont sound as good as the album, there will probably be a fight, I wont be able to find a toilet, and I’ll feel like crap the next day. Still, I’ll be there. $1000, I’ll sell a kidney and go 10 times.

I’m not a live music fan unless it sounds very good, and some music just doesn’t sound very great live compared to studio versions. So, not much money.

@Blackberry So, bands with no talent then? :P

$250 US. It would have to be one of those once in a life time things though.

Saw AC/DC three times, paid less than $25 each time. Boy, I’m old.

I would pay probably about $200 to see Radiohead, Pavement, or Shpongle, as they usually perform with a full band.

For electronic music, though, it’d be less, probably around $100 for The Chemical Brothers or Noisia live.

Radiohead is the #1 band I want to see live, right now, though.

@dverhey Didn’t you feel their new album was lacking something though?

@Paul Their new album was just different. It was a lot like Thom Yorke’s solo stuff, and you could tell they were definitely pushing the electronic side of things. That being said, I still liked it. It wasn’t nearly as good as In Rainbows or OK Computer, but it was still pretty good.

If any band other than Radiohead had tried that approach to an album it probably would have been universally panned, though, so that’s something about their fans I guess.

I’d sell my house in order to get a ticket to a Beatles concert.

My daughter has been invited by a friend to go see Taylor Swift. Tickets start at $90. It is doubtful that her friend would want one of the cheap seats. Although, it occurs to me now that if someone invites you, isn’t the custom for them to pay for the ticket?

With my present budget i would want to spend not more than €100.
fI money wasn’t a problem, probably around fivefold of that.

@wundayatta It was probably more along the lines of “hey, I’m like goin to this wicked TS concert, wanna come with? Only £500!”

I paid a total of $300 each for tickets to see U2 last month. I bought the tickets in October of 2009, and then after Bono hurt himself it was postponed a year.

I paid $1000 for three tickets to Coldplay.

That’s about tops for me, and I can’t think of another band I would pay that much to see. I paid that because they don’t come through that often.

I think we’ve paid over $700 in tickets to see various artists/bands. So, about that much is what my top dollar is.

Right now? Nothing. I don’t have money to spend on stuff like that at the moment. At the best of times? Probably $100 a ticket.
I’ve seen TOOL twice already, and they are even better live than they are on album. I’ve been moved to tears at their concerts, it’s an amazing experience for me. I just don’t like to blow money, and more than $100 a ticket would be outrageous in my opinion.

50 bucks tops

I’ve paid a lot for tickets before, and I’d do it again. I love live music and love to add to the list of bands I’ve seen live. I’d pay $500 to see the Ramones if it were possible.

That said, I much prefer the atmosphere of smaller venues, and would rather not go to any show in a stadium. That’s all right, though, because I can’t think of very many bands I’d go to see that would be playing a show that huge, anyway.

@Seelix I might pay that for the Ramones. They were wacked, but in a cool way.

Most of the bands and artists that I like are on the lower end of the ticket-price scale. I think that the most expensive concert that I have gone to was about $30-some for the Indigo Girls a few weeks ago. At this point in my life, that is about my upper limit. That said, I will pay much more if it is an all-day or all-weekend music festival with lots of groups and/or individuals performing.

I could actually pay whatever the asking price, but I don’t like love any one group or person enough to pay to see them. If it were a private showing than maybe I would consider paying whatever. I just won’t be caught in a crowd or mob of people worshipping swooning over a performer.

I’d spend up to about $200.00 depending on the venue the band is playing. I’ve paid more for hockey and symphony tickets so a live concert is no less exciting to me or of value.