• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    And concerts. I haven’t seen a concert since the 90s. I’m lucky to have grown up in the era of cheap tickets.

    In the 70s, I worked in a record store that sold tickets for the local outdoor summer venue. Lawn seats were $3, and it took 45 minutes to get there. If we worked the day shift in the summer, and got off at 5, and that nights show wasn’t sold out yet, we could grab a $3 ticket, and be at the show before it started.

    I was also a fan of the local orchestra, who played there every week, and never fully sold out. I went to a LOT of those shows.

    Hadestown is coming to town, and I’d love to see it, but the cheapest seat in the last row, off to the side, is about $70, so they can go fuck themselves. Entertainment is for the rich. I’ll just pirate the show, if there’s a proshot of it. Besides, I love the original concept album much better than the Broadway version anyway. Hades is far better in the original.