Curefest

[Bombay Chutney]

I'm not dying to see any of the bands, but am interested to see a bunch of 'em.

Well, that's another thing.  I don't really care about any of the other bands. I'm sure I'll check them out if I go, but I'm really looking at this as just another Cure show.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I got the t-shirt back in the 80's...back when you could get a concert t-shirt for 10 bucks. I don't have anything against a 10-15 dollar concert t-shirt, it's the 40 dollar t-shirts that I doth protest.
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I won't be going to the Cure show, but maybe I'll wear my Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me t-shirt to Beulah.

Me neither...seen them twice already, which is enough. First time was at the old Capital Centre, which was a good show. Second time was at Merriweather which was crap.
 
 Won't be wearing a t-shirt either....and I hope you made your t-shirt yourself Mr. Rhett Miller! [/b]

[filthypit]

pre-sale pw:
 
 time for the rat-bastards @ ticketmaster to spank us for another concert...
 
 i expect a lot of people will balk @ $75, especially for a roster of bands most have never heard of.
 
 re: hfstival performance
 wtf! all the top 40 hits?! 3/4 of the peeps left after offspring ... and every time they played something off of the new cd, MORE people got up & left(?)
 robert kind'a looks like burl ives now - playing his acoustic guitar on top of that big hairy belly!    :roll:
 
  <small>[ 05-25-2004, 01:45 PM: Message edited by: kosmo vinyl ]</small>

[Fico]

Originally posted by filthypit:
  pre-sale pw:
 
 time for the rat-bastards @ ticketmaster to spank us for another concert...
 
 i expect a lot of people will balk @ $75, especially for a roster of bands most have never heard of.
 

Is this $75 an estimated amount or the actual price?? if it's Merriweather they will charge an extra 10 for parking plus other service charges...we could be looking at a $90 ticket or more...
 
  <small>[ 05-25-2004, 01:47 PM: Message edited by: kosmo vinyl ]</small>

[mankie]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
 [QB] I got the t-shirt back in the 80's...back when you could get a concert t-shirt for 10 bucks. I don't have anything against a 10-15 dollar concert t-shirt, it's the 40 dollar t-shirts that I doth protest.
 
 

 I'm sure someone could tell us what a $10 t-shirt in the 80's would be the equivilent of now......GGW?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I think I posted this before:
 
 http://inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_rate/InflationCalculator.asp
 
 Inflation between May, 1987 (about the time I bought the t-shirt) to April, 2004=66.22%
 
 Thus, that $10 t-shirt should go for $16.62 now.
 
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
 

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
 [QB] I got the t-shirt back in the 80's...back when you could get a concert t-shirt for 10 bucks. I don't have anything against a 10-15 dollar concert t-shirt, it's the 40 dollar t-shirts that I doth protest.
 
 

 I'm sure someone could tell us what a $10 t-shirt in the 80's would be the equivilent of now......GGW? [/b]

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by Fico:
 Is this $75 an estimated amount or the actual price??

The link for the presale says tickets are $40-75.  That means even a lawn ticket will probably cost about $50 with the service fees.

[Bombay Chutney]

Actually - here's what the web page says:
 
 GENERAL ADMISSION FLOOR $75.00
 MAIN PAVILION SEATING $60.00
 LOGE PAVILION SEATING $60.00
 GENERAL ADMISSION LAWN $40.00
 
 GA/FLOOR?  Is that the pit?

[Bags]

Question -- even for the Cure alone, did anyone think tickets would be less than $40?

[Bombay Chutney]

No - but I was expecting somewhere around $50.  $75 was a bit of a shock.  $60 isn't too bad though.

[kosmo vinyl]

the posting of presale passwords is frowned upon around here... seeing as there are other ways to get them, including asking nicely, any advantage of the presale password is lost if it gets publically posted.

[Seth Hurwitz]

I had a very nice offer in with much lower tix, and then ClearChannel started making ridiculous offers to try and get them to play Nissan - either that, or they knew The Cure wanted to play Merriweather and figured they'd cost us some money at least - that's how they think
 
 so, in order to get the show, this is what we had to charge
 
 we were still able to keep the tickets lower than what they were going to charge, however
 
 the $75 is just for the pit, and there's not very many of them available
 
 $60 is still not bad for all the bands they're bringing, though - $40 for the lawn is an outright bargain, in my opinion

[Samantha]

what the fuck??
 
 I can't get my friggin tickets..."Access to our ticketing system is currently limited."

[Joymonster]

I had no problems getting my tickets...

[Samantha]

thanks, rub it in