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Old 08-22-2016, 08:11 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher View Post
The price of live entertainment has escalated to the point where it's usually not worth it to me. The first premier live show I saw was Rod Stewart when I was a teenager. It was $30 for floor seats at the newly-opened Saddledome - a big chunk of change to my 14-year-old self. Still, that's only $65 in today's dollars. What do floor tickets to a major concert cost today? $300?
Your generation is mostly to blame you know.

Back in the good old days the midde-aged geezers with their real-job salaries were not competing for those same tickets. (At least not very commonly.)

If you go watch some up and coming act that only the kids will know about, it's still pretty cheap.
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