Well if you thought Sting's sound engineer should be fired and the sound was crappy for his whole set in Toronto, then you must not feel you got your money's worth either. Especially coming all the way from Atlanta! Can you agree with me on that one too? ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: Trini
To: Chris Orange ; police@mailman.xmission.com
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Police] Ticket Prices

OK, I think we see eye to eye on the stagnant setlist for the last 20 years.  I agree, time for a revamp!

Chris Orange <chrisorange@rogers.com> wrote:
> >You cannot expect to pay the same price in 2004 that you did in 1994
for a
> >concert.  Inflation and overall price increases control that, an AMC
movie
> >ticket is around $9 today, 10 years ago it was probably $6, price
increases
> >will occur.
Inflation doesn't cut it when its hovered between 2-3% over the past 20 years and ticket prices have spiraled out of control over the past 5 years. This is all Clear Channel's doing I'm afraid. I'm not sure where you were sitting for $90 but I saw tix easily costing approx. $200 Cdn each for floors in Toronto.  
 
Of course ticket prices go up over time but now they're outta control now and beyond the reach of the average fan. My argument is more about value for money and quality of the show itself. I got more out of the 1994 concert even though some of the songs on the setlist were re-hashed from his 1987 concert. I didn't care that the ticket cost more money, I just got bummed over time that I was listening to practically the same setlist over and over with the new album songs in between. 
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