The Tom Petty ticket prices for Halifax and St John’s are excessive and reek of greed. I base this on the following facts:
– Prices for all other Tom Petty concerts in the past 24 months, and coming 12 months range between $40 and $140 CAD, regardless of venue size or geographic location. These prices include local taxes and fees.
– Tom Petty has publicly crusaded for more than a decade and taken on Ticketmaster in order to ensure reasonable concert and album prices for his fans.
– All other artists currently booked in Halifax charge roughly the same amount for all shows within the same tour regardless of venue size or geographic location.
Some take the view that “the show sold out, so it’s ok”. The fact that many people absorbed the ticket price in order to see Tom Petty does not make the pricing right or ethical.
I believe a Tom Petty concert has an established fair market value, and local concert goers deserve to know they are paying well above it. —SB
This article appears in Dec 22-28, 2011.
I thankfully pay those prices to the wonderful promoters who spend their time and money promoting to our region of complainers.
It is no wonder that the prices are high, they can’t rely on a sell out because people out here don’t know how lucky they are when a great act travels this far for the first time ever.
Shut up and stop complaining. Buy or don’t buy, but don’t tell me Tom Petty isn’t worth a $200 ticket.
Friends of mine picked up tickets and didn’t complain about the price. I guess this is a method by the promoters to keep the poor trash out.
You could always get a couple extra tickets and scalp them OP, that’s perfectly legal in Canada, y’know. You can go see Mr. Petty for free.
I always mean to do that whenever an act like that comes to town, and forget, or don’t have the room on my credit card at the time. Some day..
Tom Petty isn’t worth 200 a ticket!!
I’m sure Tom Petty would gag on his oatmeal knowing they are charging what is the equivalent for an ounce of weed for one ticket to his show… I’ll take the bag of weed and stay at home with my weed listening to his music over that highway robbery any day!
Concerts are a luxury, not a necessity. If people are paying $200 to see him then that’s what the tickets are worth. Supply and demand. It really is that simple.
At least you old fuckers actually get acts that you care about to come here. I’d have $200 ready if someone I wanted to see came here, but I drive to Montreal or Ottawa (probably Toronto next time) pay for accommodations, weed, booze, food, gas, wear and tear/km’s on my car AND 165 dollars for a lower bowl ticket. And I do that at least once a year, because I’m a true live music fan. So quit your fuckin belly-achin OP. Either you’re enough of a fan to pay outrageous ticket prices or you’re not. I just spent well over a thousand bucks to go a see a concert a month ago and drove home 17 hours in a blizzard, sick as a dog. You don’t hear me complaining.
Promoters have to turn a profit, they might only get a show like this every year or two. It’s expensive to put on shows.
No sympathy from me.
Seriously SHITD, that is your point? Thanks for sharing, but you are wrong.
I do the same thing TJ. Road trips to Rock shows are my favourite things. I love it when those musicians make the trip instead of me having to.
A strange thing this capitalist society. It let’s someone set a price and let’s other to decide whether they are going to pay it or not. A concert is not a neccessity so if they price it too much people won’t pay and they will have to adjust or cancel.
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at least you old fuckers…
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And GET ORF MA LAWWWWNNNNNNN!!!
Wpaul
I think we are seeing an increase over the past few years because of all the free music downloading. So if we keep that in mind when we have to pay higher prices to see them live, well I am okay with it.
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Yeah, INFY I love me a concert and the trip is part of the fun. I make a few days of it. I don’t just go, see the show and leave.
OP should be thankful that they’re not writing a bitch about the 3rd or 4th show in a row that they were excited to see getting cancelled. Or that they have to justify and legitimize their love for Tom Petty and other similar acts to every Tom dick and fuckface. Try being a hip hop fan in the maratimes. Or a fan of newer more relevant music in general.
The only acts that sell tickets here are for the most part past their prime. We have to wait till they’re old till they bother to come here. I bet people are traveling and spending a lot more than a couple hundred bucks to see Tom Petty. They charge that much cuz of the older demographic. I mean Prince didn’t even sell out FFS. He must not be old and irrelevant enough. Suck it up princess.
I love me some Tom Petty but not that much. I’m good just hearing his songs on the radio.
I paid upwards of $200 to see Van Halen and I’m not even a big fan….and my mind was blown. For $200 I want my mind blown.
Move to a larger city, then you’ll get to pay less for concerts. I got to see Lady Gaga for 15 pounds in London and Tommie Sunshine for freeeee!
Did some research, and still have a hard time coming up with the math for these grossly overpriced tickets. In his career, and in all of his combined bands (i.e. Heartbreakers, solo, Traveling Wilburys) Petty has sold 60 million albums. Comparatively, Pearl Jam has sold the same amount of albums in a much shorter time span, and their tickets at the Metro Centre weren’t $200 each. Most recently, Prince, who has sold approximately 80 million albums, and again ticket prices weren’t that high. Also, lets look at 2 of the latest concerts on Magnetic Hill. First we have U2 who have sold 150 million and AC/DC who have sold 200 million. Neither act charged this ridiculous amount. So, PLEASE, someone explain how Mr Q-104 overplayed, gets $200 a head!
anything over 2 bucks is excessive for most of these washed up bums. for christ’s sake, paying a hundred bucks for tom petty, get fucking real, and a life.
INFY, simmer down. Tom Petty is coming here… FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!
I had to google to see if I knew any of his songs…
free falling.
that’s it.
I’m sure all the old, richy baby boomers have the cash to go see him…
since they were young when he was actually relevant.
That’s exactly how I see it zZz. And I’m sure that’s how the promoter sees it too. If you can’t afford it, don’t go. Or, get an extra ticket and scalp it to cover your most of, if not all of your losses and then some.
If you ain’t got no money stay your broke ass home. It’s a cold world. Like I said, if someone who I was a big enough fan of of were to come here, I would pay the asking price. I pay out the ass to see my favorite acts, and I’ve seen a lot of them more than once, so boo hooing about an expensive ticket to me = you’re not a big enough fan. A friend of mine’s parents paid $800 for 2 Elton John tickets. Not amazing seats, either. That’s the type of fans your competing with for a Tom Petty ticket, and that’s why the price is high.
Free Falling is the jam though. Fuck, that’s gonna be stuck in my head all day now.
I thought he did “Keep on Rockin in the Free World” Shows how much of a fuck I give.
I’d much rather go out for a soda…
cause then nobody hurts and nobody dies.
i’d pay to see the wilburys but some of them are dead, so they’d probably charge more^^