What's the most you spent on a concert ticket?

$110 for Madonna in DC in 2004. Face value.

$108 for U2 in DC in 2005. Each night. Face Value.
The other 3 times I saw them on that tour I had the cheap GA tickets, or I got them well below face value on Craig's list and Ebay.

And I think we paid nearly $100 for the acoustic Springsteen show at the Patriot Center. Face Value.

Was U2 worth it? Hell yeah. Was Madonna worth it? Mostly, but not entirely. Was Springsteen worth it? It's Bruuuuccccee! I'll pay that much for U2 and Springsteen again, not Madonna

Bruce Springsteen at the Patriot Center a couple of years ago. With the ticketmaster fees it came to close to $100. I believe face value was about $80.

This year's Bonnaroo, which including taxes and fees was $200. Well worth it.

As for single shows, the Stones at Soldier Field last year- $99.

I paid $120 for that Radiohead show at Tower Theatre and had the inside aisle seat in the 3rd row, stage right. Excellent show! Up til that point the most I've paid is @$50.

I think the most expensive ticket I've purchased was Dylan's quasi-secret show at the 9:30 Club a couple years ago. (I just looked it up: 2004/04/02.) I don't remember how much tickets were exactly, but I seem to recall $70-80 with tickets.com fees. For the record, it wasn't really worth it.

Bruce Springsteen, 80 dollars for that acoustic show and 120 for a scalped ticket to see him with the E Street Band. Totally worth it. I honestly think he could be one of the greatest performers ever.

I don't usually spend outrageous amounts on the tickets themselves; I can't recall the last time I bought from a scalper and most of the bands I really want to see don't go over $40/ticket. And usually it's more like $25 or less for the tickets. But lately I have gotten in a really bad habit of going out of town to see shows. Sometimes it's bands that I won't get the chance to see again for a long time (the Pogues in NYC was well worth the trip even though I saw both nights here too) sometimes it's not (I think I've seen Social Distortion 6 or 7 times this year) but either way it gets pretty expensive.

Like my trip to the Voodoo Music Festival a few weeks back… tickets to the Festival were a pretty good deal at $60 for a 2-day pass. Add in airfare at $350 and hotel at $190/night (in New Orleans these days, there's no mid-range hotels, only heroin-junkie dives and upscale) and it's a pretty expensive little outing.

Originally posted by gradon:
I paid $120 for that Radiohead show at Tower Theatre and had the inside aisle seat in the 3rd row, stage right. Excellent show! Up til that point the most I've paid is @$50.

bitch! i paid $120 too for that exact same show, but only got mid-balcony…

Face Value: Besides festivals, I think $160+ charges for ROLLING STONES.
For scalper: $400 for THE WHO doing TOMMY for the first time – Radio City show. I think the face was $250.
But the most I paid, based on %%% over face:
U2 for THE JOSHUA TREE Tempe show that was filmed for Rattle&Hum. Tix were $5, but I paid $150 for one show and $75 for the other

i think the most i ever paid for a show was when i drove to kansas city, MO to see the last get up kids show ever last july. it was a 23 hour drive each way, plus a night at a hotel; so i'm su re counting gas and such, the trip cost several hundred…but it was absolutely worth it. that band changed my life when i was 13, and if they ever reuinted, i would attend no matter where in the world it was, and how much the ticket price was. to me, if you really love a band, and that band means something to you, i dont think you can put a price on seeing and connecting with said band live and experiencing them for a few hours. i think moments like that are absoultely priceless, and something you can never get back or experience again.

$90ish to see Springsteen the day after his birthday in KC a few years ago, taping it and getting away with it = priceless

aside from that I haven't paid more than $70 i think.

$125 (face value) for Prince at the Warner a few years ago…midnight show…he played until 3…well worth it…watched the last half of the show with Larry Graham …pretty great event

$125 to a scalper to see Pearl Jam at Constitution Hall in 1998. I had always missed out on their ticket lotteries and really wanted to see them. Great seats, great show.

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Originally posted by gradon:
I paid $120 for that Radiohead show at Tower Theatre and had the inside aisle seat in the 3rd row, stage right. Excellent show! Up til that point the most I've paid is @$50.

bitch! i paid $120 too for that exact same show, but only got mid-balcony…

The most I've ever paid was for this show also - $150 for third row in the Loge. Amazing show.

I paid face for this show, 3rd row pit :p
HEHEHE

Originally posted by amnesiac:

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Originally posted by gradon:
I paid $120 for that Radiohead show at Tower Theatre and had the inside aisle seat in the 3rd row, stage right. Excellent show! Up til that point the most I've paid is @$50.

bitch! i paid $120 too for that exact same show, but only got mid-balcony…

The most I've ever paid was for this show also - $150 for third row in the Loge. Amazing show.

152 for Coachella 2004 tickets. worth every last cent.

Festivals excluded…Peter Gabriel, I think $100'ish face+fees the first time and close to $150 face+fees the second. Don't believe in supporting scalpers, so that's the max for me.

$400 give or take $50 three times in the past year. (Just saw 'em Friday night.) WOW! If they weren't in L.A. & Vancouver for the last 2 shows, I'd go RIGHT NOW. 60 year olds aren't supposed to rock like that. They're really not.

coachella tickets were $70/day in 04.
i wasted $80 on white stripes NYE tickets (2003) and walked out before they even played.

but for a normal day of the year, the most i've paid for a ticket, i think, was ~$60 for roger waters at nissan in 2000. i don't forsee myself paying to go to anything at nissan again.

i think i might have paid more than $60 for the RH tickets for this year because of getting jacked with the exchange rates and such, but i am not 100% sure..

$85 for a Pink Floyd ticket in 1994 or 95. Completely wasted on me since I only knew the big songs and did not have a freak out when the pigs inflated.