The eye-watering prices caught the eye of NJ.com, who published a scathing op-ed of their hometown hero charging around $4,000 to $5,000 per ticket on Ticketmaster for fans to see him in person.
Springsteen, 72, has always been revered in New Jersey, a popular local boy-done-good, but the latest price hike in tickets has seen even his most stalwart fans thinking of turning their back on him.
Tickets for mid-floor range seats fetched for in the mid-four figures on the first day of sales while less desirable seats are still over $1,000.
That's me on the right. He wasn't so full of himself back then.
USA Today wrote a piece on this, and it's not encouraging:
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I wouldn't pay 50 cents for his whole damned record collection.
ReplyDeleteThey could be free, front row, stage seats and I would pass.
ReplyDeleteI think it cost $8 to see him at the Stone Pony back around 1978.
ReplyDeleteIt was $8 general admission at the Jacksonville Gator Bowl in 78. The standard concert ticket prior to that show was $6. Concessions and tee-shirt sales was what made the money.
Deletein '70 I paid $ 1.75 to see Jethro Tull
ReplyDeletewell played gentlemen...
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