Story of My Life
I have seen Social Distortion numerous times. I have traveled great distances to see them live. They are most definitely one of the bands on the top of my list of "favorite bands of all time". And they're coming here. I want to go see them again because they're great live and Mike Ness is awesome the way he says "motherfucker", however I just don't think I can do it. Nothing against the band, I respect them, they've been doing the same thing for many years and it's great that they're still doing what they do. I just can't justify spending over $20 in "service charges" and "convenience fees" by purchasing the tickets through TicketMaster. I feel like I should just bend over and let TicketMaster go to town, because really, that's pretty much what they're doing. A ticket that initially costs $25 (which to be honest is a bit steep to begin with) ends up costing about $36. That's over $70 for two. I think I could pretty much buy all their cds and dvds for that amount of money. Like I said, it's probably not the band exactly, I would pay the $25 for a ticket if the money went to the band/venue, but with the additional fees and whatnot, it's just not worth it. It makes me quite sad that I won't be seeing them this time around, but I just can't hand over money to TicketMaster for basically doing nothing for me. I'll give them $.39 for the stamp and $1.00 for the envelope to send the tickets to me, but how they can justify charging more than that is beyond me.That being said, I think from now on if it comes down to TicketMaster selling tickets to a show or something that I want to see, I'll probably pass. I don't want to give them my money in such an obvious way. At least work it into the price of the ticket so I'll feel a little better. I remember when we went to see Henry Rollins it ended up costing about the price of an additional ticket in the TicketMaster fees, and I was pretty outraged about it then but paid the additional amount because I really wanted to see Rollins. I don't think I can do it anymore though, it seems like such a waste. *sigh*
UPDATE: It seems as if the whole TicketMaster thing is due to the Moore Theatre (which happens to be where we saw Rollins), because tickets to the SxDx show in Spokane are being sold through TicketsWest, who I believe only do a per transaction fee as opposed to a per ticket fee.
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