Another disturbing musical trend is the excessive prices of concert tickets and souvenirs. Certain ticket agencies (legal scalpers) currently have the legal right to buy the bulk of good tickets, and turn around and sell those tix with a nonrefundable service charge; which sometimes at least doubles the normal ticket price. Also, thanks to the greed of the older, wiser Rolling Stones, concert shirts worth about $10 cost at least $20. At a Fleetwood Mac show I attended, I was shocked to see a sweatshirt worth no more than $25 selling for $50.
Hopefully, there will eventually be a legal crackdown on the highly unethical practices of these so-called ticket agencies, but, in the meantime; if concertgoers willingly pay exorbitant fees for choice tickets then every aspect of paying for concerts will likely be priced out of control.
[Originally appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper and part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays]
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