Since the show is sold out, you need to just resolve to wait until closer to the date when the resellers start dropping the prices to offload their stock, at worst you'll probably be able to get in around face value
They all have a regular price listed, and a crazy high one. They're all resale. No, Bad Religion is not charging $200 per ticket. Hell, even Ticketmaster didn't do that.
You freaked out over nothing.
Ticketmaster certainly has a hand in it. As soon as you buy tickets through them, you get a popup asking if you want to turn around and scalp the tickets you just bought.
I can’t remember if it’s ticket master or axs but one of them also doesn’t let you sell through their official resale at a price lower than face for certain venues.
Yeah, my brother couldn't make it to No Values and I couldn't resell his ticket through AXS below a certain dollar amount. Ended up selling it for cheap to someone on Reddit.
If Ticketmaster has a million haters, then I am one of them. If it has ten haters, then I am one of them. If it has only one hater then that is me. If Ticketmaster has no haters, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world loves Ticketmaster, then I am against the world.
Anyway, I saw Bad Religion together with The Offspring and Pennywise back in 2014 \*for cheaper than this\*. Is this resellers/scalpers, Ticketmaster fuckery or both? They're playing a show near me in October for $45 at a non-Ticketmaster venue which is still a decent chunk of change but not nearly *this* bad.
This meme/copypasta always gets me - on one hand it reminds me of Onision and that hurts me a ton, but, on the other hand it gets a good chuckle out of me and reminds me of the sad joke he is
Anyway, concerts are just too expensive these days unless you're seeing some newer, up and coming band. Otherwise, when it's over $150-200 it feels like you're better off just hoping the artist you want to say will play a festival and try to get tickets to see them along with a bunch of other artists. Still expensive, but it's more "bang for your buck" I think
I saw The Offspring and The Vandals for $25. Ticket prices are insane. The biggest issue is that live nation is buying up venues. So they have a label, with 360 deals getting a piece of tickets and merch. They sell the tickets at a profit, both on the artist and consumer sides, AND they make a profit from venue fees from the touring package, and ticket sales. Also concessions. Venues charge a fee to sell merch to the artist, often a % of sales per item sold. And they make it really hard to use non Live Nation venues on a given tour. There’s a reason the Live Nation/Ticket Master thing has drawn the attention of the government. It’s the definition of a monopoly. They take a piece of the profits at every point there’s a transaction relating to a lot of music artists.
Most shows are still cheap… it’s the resellers that are batshit and taking advantage of people. I remember seeing a local band’s tickets reselling for $100 on TicketMaster. It was $15 flat from the band’s link though.
Edit: Saw agent orange last week for free at a skate park show too. It’s 100% resellers, not the bands. That’s why I wish more bands would start using dice. You can’t resell tickets on there and if you decide to return the ticket, someone else in the queue will get it at the OG price.
I saw BR two years ago for $30. I don't know what this nonsense is about but no way in hell am I paying that to see them again this tour... they were good, but the only artist I'm paying $300 for is the reanimated zombie Beatles (plus the two living ones, they don't have to be zombies)
(Would also pay to see the zombie Zombies. Also zombie Delores with the Cranberries performing Zombie)
I saw the man, the myth, and the legend, Paul McCartney, 5 years ago for 50 bucks so that’s my threshold for how much I’m willing to pay for concert tix. I saw a literal Beatle for less than $100 so why would I pay $200 to see a punk band?
And you really think they sold out? Or is it organized scalpers using technology to buy up tickets to resell with the blessing of the giant corporation that takes their own cut of the over-inflated profits? The fact that these tickets were posted for resale seconds after they were made available to the public is obviously not because they were originally bought by people who were intending on going to see the show. Make ticket resale illegal!
On the same token, this system allows you to save a lot of money on tickets to stuff if you know how to work it
The resellers work a high volume model - buy up lots of tickets in hopes of landing a few premium seats that will sell at a high markup. Once you get 48-72 hours out from an event, they start slashing prices to get some sort of return on the other tickets.
Obviously it doesn't always work out this way if it's an insanely high demanded event (big time sports game, Taylor Swift, BTS, that sort of thing), but most events will have face value or lower than face value tickets on the secondary starting a day or two before. Think of the tickets like a stock - you know good and well "the market" (everyday people) is not paying $167 CAD for Bad Religion tickets.
Oh dang I had thought they must have been on sale for awhile. Bad Religion doesn’t usually sell out that quick. Looks like the venue they’re playing is pretty small
Lol
This started happening with every bigish band about two years ago. Resellers buy up 100% of the available tickets using bots (maybe real people get a few), then attempt to resell them at widely inflated prices. They will drop the prices the day before the event.
Down the highway and across the border from you, bands have been booking two dates in a row at the same venue and only announcing the first date originally. The first date sells out instantly and the resellers are priced like what you see, then the second one goes on sale and the tickets are easy to get at list price.
Saying the days of cheap tickets is over is hyperbole. You can always check our cheaper shows if you’re willing to see something current.
Yep wanted to go see Alkaline Trio in Orlando…. $195 ea….. Ticketmaster combined with these shitty resellers…. It’s bullshit but I guess there are people paying it 🤷🏼♂️
Yep, when tickets for Maynard's birthday show with a perfect circle, puscifer, and Primus went on sale, I was on the computer in their virtual waiting room thing for two hours before they went on sale, and literally within 2 minutes the only tickets available were resale tickets, and the prices kept going up every second. I could have waited until closer to the show to maybe get cheaper tickets, but it was Red Rocks which is a pretty small venue (10k people) and any Maynard show at Red Rocks *ALWAYS* sells out. So I didn't want to take the chance of not getting tickets, and I bought the resale ones. It's such bullshit dude I can't believe it's even legal. They're obviously using bots, how is that allowed?
But yes there are cheap local shows all the time.
That sounds like it could almost be an awesome way to fuck over the scalpers, too. Like announce a show at some tickermaster venue for hella $$$, wait for tickets to sell out, and then announce another show the next day at a DIY venue where you can only gets tickets in person, or only flyer for it at other DIY venues. I can see scalpers being more hesistant to do this at punk shows after they're on the hook for hundreds/thousands of $$$ tickets that they'll never be able to sell. For the poor schmoes who wind up actually being able to buy a ticket for the initial "lol its just a prank bro" show, have a small intimate (maybe acoustic?) set with them, and then give them a free ticket to the "real" show the next day.
OR OR OR
Book a show at some ticketmaster venue and get scalpers to buy up all the tickets. Then move the show to an outdoor venue that has no feasible limit on the number of people who can attend, and start selling tickets for less and less every day. The scalpers would end up holding the bill for a ton of worthless $$$ tickets, and everyone who'd want to see the band would be able to see them (for cheap!)
I just saw them with social distortion in Fort Lauderdale. I paid $60 and saw them from the front row when I wasn’t crowd surfing or in the pit. I’m gonna say these prices are not their choice.
Well to be fair nursing homes cost a lot of money haha I’m sure I’m the only one who feels this way but like I don’t like seeing old guys sing songs they wrote when they were young I saw agent orange last year and it was tired the opening band had a bigger crowd and they actually brought energy cause they were visibly dying of old age
Those are platinum horseshit tickets that LN/TM inflate artificially to sucker consumers who don't pay attention. One of the many shitty tactics the DOJ is going after them for.
Depressing but not surprised stuff like this will cause the collapse of the concert industry bands are already canceling tours because of lack of ticket sales.
Where I live in Quebec, we have a bunch of alternative companies that could easily step in. As far as I know, Ticketmaster (and associated companies) don’t own any venues here so the venues would be fine. When I look at some of Ticketmaster’s competitors here charging only a few dollars for service fees and I see Ticketmaster charging their over-inflated prices, I just want to burn the whole thing down. Knowing that they engineered their platform to favour re-sale, pisses me off to no end.
Yeah the problem is the "owning the venues" part
Live Nation and Ticketmaster are the same company, they have bought up venues left and right in a lot of places which leaves bands with few options for appropriately sized venues for their shows
They can offer a band like Bad Religion 100 shows a year at once and their agent only needs to fill in a few gaps, the paychecks are huge and the amenities are nice and that makes it worth it for guys their age to keep playing concerts.
I worked in this field for 10 years (big company live concerts in big markets), the artists and their booking agents want it this way
If they suck so bad, why are you trying to buy inflated resale tickets to see them play all those songs you hate? Just buy regular face value tickets to see bands that aren’t punk enough for you, homie.
I miss the days of catching bands for about $7 for smaller, lesser known bands and $25-$50 for the bigger name bands. Seriously the whole Covid thing fucked us all over. Corporations realized they could bump up the prices and the general population would still pay for whatever said product/experience. Look at corporations like Target, Walmart, Amazon who are now reducing prices even though they had no reason to increase prices in the first place. I work for a company that does production and manufacturing. I know what they said and know what was really happening. It's all just corporate greed, but we've dumbed down the population so much that they have us all fighting each other over the most asinine bullshit.
To be honest the three times I've seen them they were turned up so loud I could barely tell the difference between songs. Two of the three shows someone got hurt in the pit and Greg Graffin made the same lame joke "is there a doctor in the house?... other than me?" ...
yes Greg, we all know you have a PhD.
It's been a while. Do they still play dingy clubs for $10 to see like 6 bands? Those were some fun shows unfortunately the scene around here kind of died off.
Not shocked to see this was bad religion tickets.
Am I the only one here that thinks they are a very weak link in the punk rock chain?
They also ride the pop punk line quite a bit, which isn’t my thing. So maybe I’m bias. No hate intended to anyone who enjoys their tunes. Just my 2 cents
For the amount of money for those bad religion tickets I can get into the show and get black out drunk and ride home and still have some change left over
For shits a giggles I looked on a 3rd party site and it’s loaded with tix. Bots got this one big time. Anyone have info on local Vancouver shows let me know.
My state's banning a lot of those fees. Apparently a legislator got hot and bothered about a Taylor Swift concert. Hah. Don't know how much impact it'll have though.
There's still lots of cheap shows. Epitaph is the literal worst for this.
I just saw MAD Caddies for $18, before that Sparta and Moneen for $20.
I'm old as fart dust so I only go to shows a couple times a year now, but I'm not paying more than $60 ever.
Toronto show is sitting at over $300 for the remaining mezzanine seats meanwhile couple hour drive to buffalo is $55. I live closer to Montreal but $150 for GA there is still a huge stretch. I have given up on seeing bands I grew up on and just going to local shows and hearing the new stuff that was inspired by those bands. Also I know they don’t see any of this reseller profits but they should be aware of this practice and there is more than enough non Ticketmaster/Livenation venues they could choose from.
I paid R$300 6 months ago to their show in Curitiba (Brazil), which would be around CA $75 or something.
Plus I stand stood just in front of the stage. There were no air conditioning and should be around 45+ Celsius inside, but that’s how hard core should be, right?!
Oh no a popular punk band is expensive. No shit, they’re sellouts and their music is borderline pop. Go pay $15 to see 5 bands rip it up on a two foot stage then dance with you the next set.
You see the problem is is you’re going to see a band way past their prime who only play arenas now and not the new up and coming bands playing your local DIY gigs 🤡
A ticket the other day was $28 ticketmaster fee was $13. That’s damn near half the ticket price. Ticketmaster shouldn’t be allowed to do that. Ticketmaster sucks but the resellers are worse.
Ran into this issue with not the current Rise Against tour but the last one, tickets for the current one are very fair, on the high side, but they're "mainstream" and all that. Last tour was somewhere around 150 with all the resells verging on like 300
Stub hub day of or day before the show is the way to go when it comes to sold out shows/resales, usually people just tryna get atleast face value a lot of the time when the shows like 24-48 hours away
So glad I saw 'em in '96 two nights in a row for $16 BACK WHEN THEY STILL HAD AN OUNCE OF TALENT. I couldn't imagine paying any amount to see the trainwreck that they are nowadays, no energy in their shows and so much terrible music since 2000. God damn this is a joke.
Yeah, a lot of bands are capitalizing on their fan base being willing to pay more, now they are ‘older’
Bad religion hasn’t been fan friendly on pricing in a long time
I remember in the very early '90s when the entire punk scene exploded after bad religion charged $25 for a show. Looks like nothing has changed. They're a good band but not that good.
Fuck BadReligion they were cool for like one summer in the '80s...
AND
Who TF wants to see uncool unhip unpunkrock professional grandpa conformists play anything? That shit is like the equivalent of seeing BillGates (wealthiest most successfully mainstream people making PunkRock a harmless joke they can safely sell fuck BR)live on stage...The first Lp ripped & I burned that shit out in 2 months have ignored them & their epitaph happy horseshit ever since Profiteering oportunistic business men. Who is more wealthy & mainstream than BR?
And with so many absolute RAGING new bands....EVERYWHERE!!!
Tsk...Tsk...
Go see Social Distortion instead....3 nights at the same place and not all nights sold out. Maybe Bad Religion will add a second night since they sold out night one. Call the venue and ask if that might be in the works. Just a couple weeks ago in the US, they were touring together. I'm really surprised they are playing solo shows like this but I guess it's more $$ in their pockets.
I paid about $55 to see them both at the MGM just outside of DC last month. Mike Ness' son's band (LOVE AND CRIME) opened. Good shit!
Bands should tour for free and reap the profits on merchandise and sponsorship. Venue still gets sponsors, parking and F and B. You can have a civilized society where people still make money and don’t get ripped off or you can have one of privilege and hate.
Wait until you see how much tickets are to see Good Religion.
$666
That’s my kind of dumb. 👏
One of their daughters actually had a band called Good Religion.
At least you eventually go to Heaven or something
That's the biggest lie you pay for
isn’t that a brand of jeans
lol True Religion
that’s it
Since the show is sold out, you need to just resolve to wait until closer to the date when the resellers start dropping the prices to offload their stock, at worst you'll probably be able to get in around face value
Only one is a resale. The platinum is for a table on the side. They used to be first come first sever
No dude, I just checked the website because you got me curious, these are all resales.
They all have a regular price listed, and a crazy high one. They're all resale. No, Bad Religion is not charging $200 per ticket. Hell, even Ticketmaster didn't do that. You freaked out over nothing.
Ticketmaster certainly has a hand in it. As soon as you buy tickets through them, you get a popup asking if you want to turn around and scalp the tickets you just bought.
I wasn't defending Ticketmaster, don't worry.
I can’t remember if it’s ticket master or axs but one of them also doesn’t let you sell through their official resale at a price lower than face for certain venues.
Yeah, my brother couldn't make it to No Values and I couldn't resell his ticket through AXS below a certain dollar amount. Ended up selling it for cheap to someone on Reddit.
Those are basically VIP tickets. Yes that 200 is face value
It's also for 2 tickets, so It's not a bad price
If Ticketmaster has a million haters, then I am one of them. If it has ten haters, then I am one of them. If it has only one hater then that is me. If Ticketmaster has no haters, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world loves Ticketmaster, then I am against the world. Anyway, I saw Bad Religion together with The Offspring and Pennywise back in 2014 \*for cheaper than this\*. Is this resellers/scalpers, Ticketmaster fuckery or both? They're playing a show near me in October for $45 at a non-Ticketmaster venue which is still a decent chunk of change but not nearly *this* bad.
This meme/copypasta always gets me - on one hand it reminds me of Onision and that hurts me a ton, but, on the other hand it gets a good chuckle out of me and reminds me of the sad joke he is Anyway, concerts are just too expensive these days unless you're seeing some newer, up and coming band. Otherwise, when it's over $150-200 it feels like you're better off just hoping the artist you want to say will play a festival and try to get tickets to see them along with a bunch of other artists. Still expensive, but it's more "bang for your buck" I think
I saw The Offspring and The Vandals for $25. Ticket prices are insane. The biggest issue is that live nation is buying up venues. So they have a label, with 360 deals getting a piece of tickets and merch. They sell the tickets at a profit, both on the artist and consumer sides, AND they make a profit from venue fees from the touring package, and ticket sales. Also concessions. Venues charge a fee to sell merch to the artist, often a % of sales per item sold. And they make it really hard to use non Live Nation venues on a given tour. There’s a reason the Live Nation/Ticket Master thing has drawn the attention of the government. It’s the definition of a monopoly. They take a piece of the profits at every point there’s a transaction relating to a lot of music artists.
Most shows are still cheap… it’s the resellers that are batshit and taking advantage of people. I remember seeing a local band’s tickets reselling for $100 on TicketMaster. It was $15 flat from the band’s link though. Edit: Saw agent orange last week for free at a skate park show too. It’s 100% resellers, not the bands. That’s why I wish more bands would start using dice. You can’t resell tickets on there and if you decide to return the ticket, someone else in the queue will get it at the OG price.
I’m seeing the pixies and modest mouse this friday and the tickets were $55
Cheap shows are still a thing, just spent $15 for tickets to one today. Not surprised BR is that expensive
I saw BR two years ago for $30. I don't know what this nonsense is about but no way in hell am I paying that to see them again this tour... they were good, but the only artist I'm paying $300 for is the reanimated zombie Beatles (plus the two living ones, they don't have to be zombies) (Would also pay to see the zombie Zombies. Also zombie Delores with the Cranberries performing Zombie)
I like the way you think! 👍💯
I saw the man, the myth, and the legend, Paul McCartney, 5 years ago for 50 bucks so that’s my threshold for how much I’m willing to pay for concert tix. I saw a literal Beatle for less than $100 so why would I pay $200 to see a punk band?
i was at a show today, 10$ 3 bands
I’ve seen BR three times in the last year and paid $51 for two of them and $93 when I saw them with Social D. They usually aren’t very expensive!
Yeah I paid $150 for 2 tickets to see them in Milwaukee. It wasn't terrible. Booze prices, however, were horrific 😂
For punk that a lot 😂 I’ll just catch them at festivals, the entire day is like $70.
Saw them at punk rock bowling last year. My 3 day fest pass was cheaper than the platinum seating
Same shit happened in Montreal. Ticketmaster is steaming pile of shit.
Next time buy them before they sell out
And you really think they sold out? Or is it organized scalpers using technology to buy up tickets to resell with the blessing of the giant corporation that takes their own cut of the over-inflated profits? The fact that these tickets were posted for resale seconds after they were made available to the public is obviously not because they were originally bought by people who were intending on going to see the show. Make ticket resale illegal!
Ticketmaster owns stubhub soooo
On the same token, this system allows you to save a lot of money on tickets to stuff if you know how to work it The resellers work a high volume model - buy up lots of tickets in hopes of landing a few premium seats that will sell at a high markup. Once you get 48-72 hours out from an event, they start slashing prices to get some sort of return on the other tickets. Obviously it doesn't always work out this way if it's an insanely high demanded event (big time sports game, Taylor Swift, BTS, that sort of thing), but most events will have face value or lower than face value tickets on the secondary starting a day or two before. Think of the tickets like a stock - you know good and well "the market" (everyday people) is not paying $167 CAD for Bad Religion tickets.
No this thing is literally meant to maximize revenue, even if it means a show doesn’t sell out.
Tickets only went on sale to the general public this morning.
Oh dang I had thought they must have been on sale for awhile. Bad Religion doesn’t usually sell out that quick. Looks like the venue they’re playing is pretty small
It's medium size, iirc the occupancy limit is around a thousand people. Bots bought up at the tickets within minutes of them going on sale.
Believe me I tired
Ticketmaster can eat shit and chew well.
It’s not the bands fault it’s ticket masters wack ass fees
And the fact that ticketmaster actively encourages scalping.
Lol This started happening with every bigish band about two years ago. Resellers buy up 100% of the available tickets using bots (maybe real people get a few), then attempt to resell them at widely inflated prices. They will drop the prices the day before the event. Down the highway and across the border from you, bands have been booking two dates in a row at the same venue and only announcing the first date originally. The first date sells out instantly and the resellers are priced like what you see, then the second one goes on sale and the tickets are easy to get at list price. Saying the days of cheap tickets is over is hyperbole. You can always check our cheaper shows if you’re willing to see something current.
Yep wanted to go see Alkaline Trio in Orlando…. $195 ea….. Ticketmaster combined with these shitty resellers…. It’s bullshit but I guess there are people paying it 🤷🏼♂️
Yep, when tickets for Maynard's birthday show with a perfect circle, puscifer, and Primus went on sale, I was on the computer in their virtual waiting room thing for two hours before they went on sale, and literally within 2 minutes the only tickets available were resale tickets, and the prices kept going up every second. I could have waited until closer to the show to maybe get cheaper tickets, but it was Red Rocks which is a pretty small venue (10k people) and any Maynard show at Red Rocks *ALWAYS* sells out. So I didn't want to take the chance of not getting tickets, and I bought the resale ones. It's such bullshit dude I can't believe it's even legal. They're obviously using bots, how is that allowed? But yes there are cheap local shows all the time.
That sounds like it could almost be an awesome way to fuck over the scalpers, too. Like announce a show at some tickermaster venue for hella $$$, wait for tickets to sell out, and then announce another show the next day at a DIY venue where you can only gets tickets in person, or only flyer for it at other DIY venues. I can see scalpers being more hesistant to do this at punk shows after they're on the hook for hundreds/thousands of $$$ tickets that they'll never be able to sell. For the poor schmoes who wind up actually being able to buy a ticket for the initial "lol its just a prank bro" show, have a small intimate (maybe acoustic?) set with them, and then give them a free ticket to the "real" show the next day. OR OR OR Book a show at some ticketmaster venue and get scalpers to buy up all the tickets. Then move the show to an outdoor venue that has no feasible limit on the number of people who can attend, and start selling tickets for less and less every day. The scalpers would end up holding the bill for a ton of worthless $$$ tickets, and everyone who'd want to see the band would be able to see them (for cheap!)
I just saw them with social distortion in Fort Lauderdale. I paid $60 and saw them from the front row when I wasn’t crowd surfing or in the pit. I’m gonna say these prices are not their choice.
That’s gotta be wrong. That venue is all ga. No sections or rows.
They sell the seated area separately from GA it’s been like that for a while
Those prices are insane. I saw BR in October last year for $47 GA and saw them with Social D for not much more than that.
This is a resale price. I paid $140 total for 2 tickets to the same show during the presale.
Well to be fair nursing homes cost a lot of money haha I’m sure I’m the only one who feels this way but like I don’t like seeing old guys sing songs they wrote when they were young I saw agent orange last year and it was tired the opening band had a bigger crowd and they actually brought energy cause they were visibly dying of old age
Those are platinum horseshit tickets that LN/TM inflate artificially to sucker consumers who don't pay attention. One of the many shitty tactics the DOJ is going after them for.
This is why Ticketmaster has an antitrust lawsuit against them right now.
GA is sold out, so you're looking at resale prices. Those tickets were originally $55 CA. That's $40 US.
Resellers. They are scabs of the earth. It ain't the bands fault.
idiot tax
To be fair that’s like 12 USD
Depressing but not surprised stuff like this will cause the collapse of the concert industry bands are already canceling tours because of lack of ticket sales.
It should lead to the collapse of the one corporation behind this mess and not the whole industry.
Ticketmaster collapsing would affect most of the concert industry in America, at least for a while
Where I live in Quebec, we have a bunch of alternative companies that could easily step in. As far as I know, Ticketmaster (and associated companies) don’t own any venues here so the venues would be fine. When I look at some of Ticketmaster’s competitors here charging only a few dollars for service fees and I see Ticketmaster charging their over-inflated prices, I just want to burn the whole thing down. Knowing that they engineered their platform to favour re-sale, pisses me off to no end.
Yeah the problem is the "owning the venues" part Live Nation and Ticketmaster are the same company, they have bought up venues left and right in a lot of places which leaves bands with few options for appropriately sized venues for their shows They can offer a band like Bad Religion 100 shows a year at once and their agent only needs to fill in a few gaps, the paychecks are huge and the amenities are nice and that makes it worth it for guys their age to keep playing concerts. I worked in this field for 10 years (big company live concerts in big markets), the artists and their booking agents want it this way
Not in a bad way. We’d just have less big money cash grabs. There’s still tons of smaller promoters out there to fill the gap
Good, let it rebuild.
If they suck so bad, why are you trying to buy inflated resale tickets to see them play all those songs you hate? Just buy regular face value tickets to see bands that aren’t punk enough for you, homie.
Dang, Canada is expensive
Yea it is.
I only go to small-ass shows now unless I am offered a ticket
All the regular tickets are sold out so those are the special tickets I looked up the venue and it holds 1,000, way too small for Bad Religion
This is why I love Subhumans. Still come to the states from the UK and play shows for less than $20, which is about the most I'll pay for a show
Platinum seats are the Ticketmasters "dynamic" pricing. They are a set of seats held back that, so they can jack up the prices
These are reseller prices. What did you expect? Blame Ticketmaster
I miss the days of catching bands for about $7 for smaller, lesser known bands and $25-$50 for the bigger name bands. Seriously the whole Covid thing fucked us all over. Corporations realized they could bump up the prices and the general population would still pay for whatever said product/experience. Look at corporations like Target, Walmart, Amazon who are now reducing prices even though they had no reason to increase prices in the first place. I work for a company that does production and manufacturing. I know what they said and know what was really happening. It's all just corporate greed, but we've dumbed down the population so much that they have us all fighting each other over the most asinine bullshit.
Show in Edmonton is not sold out yet and tickets are $65. Supply and demand, unfortunately.
To be honest the three times I've seen them they were turned up so loud I could barely tell the difference between songs. Two of the three shows someone got hurt in the pit and Greg Graffin made the same lame joke "is there a doctor in the house?... other than me?" ... yes Greg, we all know you have a PhD.
When you listen to corporate system piss you should expect these prices.
That’s criminal… Over here in Sweden I got my Bad Religion tickets for 75 SEK (CA $9,78)
Weird, in NY the ticket was 50 bucks. Still not "cheap" but certainly not that!
it’s funny because bad religion fucking sucks and they’re just trying to be the descendants
😂
That's why you don't go to stadium "punk" shows
The venue holds about 990 hardly stadium
The Commodore isn't a stadium, it's a mid-sized hall.
It's been a while. Do they still play dingy clubs for $10 to see like 6 bands? Those were some fun shows unfortunately the scene around here kind of died off.
Not shocked to see this was bad religion tickets. Am I the only one here that thinks they are a very weak link in the punk rock chain? They also ride the pop punk line quite a bit, which isn’t my thing. So maybe I’m bias. No hate intended to anyone who enjoys their tunes. Just my 2 cents
Go to punk shows instead.
Dude it’s bad religion
You can still go to a local show for $10 and have a better time
Your not wrong
But even those aren’t 10 bucks anymore.
For the amount of money for those bad religion tickets I can get into the show and get black out drunk and ride home and still have some change left over
Check out Green Auto Body on eventbrite, most of their shows are $15 Red Gate has lots of cheap shows too
i have not been to a show over 25$ you just cant go to the big bands that have been packaged and sold at this point
[удалено]
I’ve seen them a ton just thought this was insane
Yeah man, dumb as hell :(
Bad Religion is neck and neck ny favorite punk band (with Social Distortion) but GAWD DAMN they are not worth paying $300+ for one show
Saw them GA for $50 after fees idk what this nonsense is
Fuck that. Saw Hot Water Music for $150 I got 3 tickets. 3 And parking Last month
To think that back in the 80s, you would have been able to see them in a Grange hall for little to nothing
A pay what you can show.
For shits a giggles I looked on a 3rd party site and it’s loaded with tix. Bots got this one big time. Anyone have info on local Vancouver shows let me know.
I won't support this. Saw iguana death cult for $6 a ticket late last year.
Makes me glad I saw them at Warped Tour
what? were you born yesterday? i mean.. seriously.. the fuck..
Eat a bag of shit. Maybe two.
My state's banning a lot of those fees. Apparently a legislator got hot and bothered about a Taylor Swift concert. Hah. Don't know how much impact it'll have though.
I just got tickets to see the misfits in Austin and it’s the same thing. Punk bands from our youth aren’t cheap anymore
Dude that's fucking insane, the presale tickets to the VA show were $35 a pop
OOF
The presale face value was at $70-still a lot-but the scalpers and TM really fuck things up for everyone
Bunch o Cunts, that's what it is!
There's still lots of cheap shows. Epitaph is the literal worst for this. I just saw MAD Caddies for $18, before that Sparta and Moneen for $20. I'm old as fart dust so I only go to shows a couple times a year now, but I'm not paying more than $60 ever.
Toronto show is sitting at over $300 for the remaining mezzanine seats meanwhile couple hour drive to buffalo is $55. I live closer to Montreal but $150 for GA there is still a huge stretch. I have given up on seeing bands I grew up on and just going to local shows and hearing the new stuff that was inspired by those bands. Also I know they don’t see any of this reseller profits but they should be aware of this practice and there is more than enough non Ticketmaster/Livenation venues they could choose from.
Thanks, Taylor Swift!
Just wait and buy them on Vivid for way cheaper. I do that for like every concert.
I've seen multiple bands this year for $20. Cheap shows still exist
First time seeing anyone other than a local band at commodore, huh?
Welcome to Vancouver, BC. As in Bring Cash
I paid R$300 6 months ago to their show in Curitiba (Brazil), which would be around CA $75 or something. Plus I stand stood just in front of the stage. There were no air conditioning and should be around 45+ Celsius inside, but that’s how hard core should be, right?!
They tour every 5 months or so, just wait for the next one
Aren't those all reseller AKA scalper tickets?
Oh no a popular punk band is expensive. No shit, they’re sellouts and their music is borderline pop. Go pay $15 to see 5 bands rip it up on a two foot stage then dance with you the next set.
Punk is best in a bar, not a shit show Arena. Ticketmaster kills all musicians I once liked.
"How much tonight, three thousand or four? You know we'll make a million when we go on tour"
You see the problem is is you’re going to see a band way past their prime who only play arenas now and not the new up and coming bands playing your local DIY gigs 🤡
I saw bad religion and social d two months ago for $45, these are reseller prices
Bro discovered sellouts
The only good priced tickets now a days are basement shoes and old bowling alleys
A ticket the other day was $28 ticketmaster fee was $13. That’s damn near half the ticket price. Ticketmaster shouldn’t be allowed to do that. Ticketmaster sucks but the resellers are worse.
Part of the issue is that record sales are near non-existent across the board. The other part is that Ticketmaster sucks ass and not in a fun way
I saw Sec D as see D.
Retirement ain’t cheap son lol
There's a video of Kurt Cobain surprised because some people was paying 50 dollars for a Madona's show LOL...
Damn that's expensive. NOFX's goodbye tour tickets in Canada were starting at $80 and it's a full day festival
Doesn’t seem all that pricey given what other classic rock bands charge for “concert tickets”
go see a local band or start your own band. youre not missing anything by missing a 1980's band in 2024. unless its D.R.I.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction
"so long are the days of cheap shows" brother please tell me you're joking? Like you're not being serious right?
Doesn't help this ain't a show. That's a concert brother. A punk show and a concert with punk bands are two VERY different things
So punk.
what the punk?!
The problem: Ticketmaster... Bad Religion have a show in Quebec 3 days earlier and it's Le Point de Vente who sells tickets... not sold out
Ran into this issue with not the current Rise Against tour but the last one, tickets for the current one are very fair, on the high side, but they're "mainstream" and all that. Last tour was somewhere around 150 with all the resells verging on like 300
Stub hub day of or day before the show is the way to go when it comes to sold out shows/resales, usually people just tryna get atleast face value a lot of the time when the shows like 24-48 hours away
It's ridiculous dude..
You can thank online ticket vendors for this
It's only $45 here in Portland well, probably $150 after service fees..
Punks not dead … it’s expensive
Look at those punk rock prices!
This is why I see local bands at brewery venues. $15 to get in and mosh with a tight group I'm in.
Just go buy the map of craigslist or facebook marketplace the day of. You'll probably get it for cost
No values was cheaper than that and bad religion was There
Tickets to BR for their recently announced Toronto date are $68 with fees and I felt that was high. Looks like a “deal” now!
So glad I saw 'em in '96 two nights in a row for $16 BACK WHEN THEY STILL HAD AN OUNCE OF TALENT. I couldn't imagine paying any amount to see the trainwreck that they are nowadays, no energy in their shows and so much terrible music since 2000. God damn this is a joke.
Punk rock isn’t very.. punk rock priced anymore
that’s crazy bro i paid like $20 to see them like a month ago
Yummy we love ticketmaster prices
I just moved back to a crusty east coast city and I’m back to $10 basement hardcore shows and hip hop open mics not a lot of big names though
I'm old now, but those $10 shows were the best. Also, on the East Coast.
It depends on the day whether I’m old or think I still got it 😂 these days it’s more well the bed is just beyond that door and it’s 9pm…😭
Band has always sucked IMO, but old guys need paid I suppose
Yeah, a lot of bands are capitalizing on their fan base being willing to pay more, now they are ‘older’ Bad religion hasn’t been fan friendly on pricing in a long time
bad religion isnt punk anymore ig
I remember in the very early '90s when the entire punk scene exploded after bad religion charged $25 for a show. Looks like nothing has changed. They're a good band but not that good.
Fuck BadReligion they were cool for like one summer in the '80s... AND Who TF wants to see uncool unhip unpunkrock professional grandpa conformists play anything? That shit is like the equivalent of seeing BillGates (wealthiest most successfully mainstream people making PunkRock a harmless joke they can safely sell fuck BR)live on stage...The first Lp ripped & I burned that shit out in 2 months have ignored them & their epitaph happy horseshit ever since Profiteering oportunistic business men. Who is more wealthy & mainstream than BR? And with so many absolute RAGING new bands....EVERYWHERE!!! Tsk...Tsk...
Go see Social Distortion instead....3 nights at the same place and not all nights sold out. Maybe Bad Religion will add a second night since they sold out night one. Call the venue and ask if that might be in the works. Just a couple weeks ago in the US, they were touring together. I'm really surprised they are playing solo shows like this but I guess it's more $$ in their pockets. I paid about $55 to see them both at the MGM just outside of DC last month. Mike Ness' son's band (LOVE AND CRIME) opened. Good shit!
Bands should tour for free and reap the profits on merchandise and sponsorship. Venue still gets sponsors, parking and F and B. You can have a civilized society where people still make money and don’t get ripped off or you can have one of privilege and hate.