Originally posted by 6949:
My friend and I decided to cut back on shows because we've been to so many good ones that we're now hard to impress. Do any of the big spenders here or you well connected kids find yourself getting bored just because you go to so many shows?
I don't know if I go to all that many, in a raw number sense, probably average three a week over the year, but I hit more festivals than the average person which I would count as one each.
There really isn't anyone I want to see that I haven't seen, so I try to find new bands, as well as reliable favorites.
I love to travel so that's a big part of it, so going someplace new with a show being the excuse is common.
I also don't have as much free time as most so it's about convenience over cost, so if someone I want to see is playing in NY on the weekend and DC or Baltimore during the week I'll likely opt for NY with the added bonus that post show options are o'plenty.
Plus I usually consider a show as the beginning of the night, I like to go dancing and generally party pretty hard so weeknights are again not optimal cause I leave for work pretty early.
My spending is large mostly because of those constraints and prerequisites, not so much because of sheer number of shows, I'm at a point in my life where time and convenience is far more scarce/valuable than cost/money so that always takes precedence.
So no boredom is not a problem, I'm pretty selective, I don't have time just to go to a show because I don't have anything else to do, it's pretty calculated and I'm always planning 6-9 months ahead of time, especially for setting up festival runs.
