-----Original Message----- From: police-bounces+the-police=t-online.de@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:police-bounces+the-police=t-online.de@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Trini
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.
Absolute nonsense. I can't remember one other thing in daily life which has constantly gotten more expensive without a real reason over the last 25 years. I'm sitting in front of my old Police concert poster from 1979. It says 15.- DM - that's roughly US$9.00. 1000% price increase within 20 years? For what? If there's another reason than pure greed for the ticket prices today, one egg should be costing at least 5 bucks now. And no: Sting isn't (as is noboy else) worth more than maybe $40 for a concert. For 90 bucks I want to see at least dancing elephants on a carpet made of hamster fur. joerg.
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 05:26:53PM +0100, Joerg Zimmermann 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.
I don't know. Inflation isn't linear across the board. But I don't want to talk about that. One aspect that is being ignored is the intimacy factor for Sting. If I was him (but with my normal sized ego) I would be sick of playing to 10000 people. I would be yearning for an AtT kind of thing. I remember a story, though I don't know if it's apocraphyl, of Sting and Dominic going down to the tubes to do a bit of impromptu busking. I won't pretend to exactly know the motivation, it may have just been a lark, but clearly he wouldn't do something like that if it weren't fun.
For 90 bucks I want to see at least dancing elephants on a carpet made of hamster fur.
I don't know why exactly, but that's hilarious. Mark.
Hi all, The busking episode was done as part of an interview of Sting done by Q magazine (some of the best Sting interviews as well as the most insightful and funny have been done by this magazine over the years). I cannot remember when it was done and I do not have all of my Sting magazines handy at the moment. My thought reading the article at the time was that I would have gone crazy if I had seen him busking...but then knowing me I probably would have missed him by an hour or so. Hilary ----- Original Message ----- From: <mtigges@shaw.ca> To: "Joerg Zimmermann" <the-police@t-online.de> Cc: <police@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [Police] Money for Something On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 05:26:53PM +0100, Joerg Zimmermann 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.
I don't know. Inflation isn't linear across the board. But I don't want to talk about that. One aspect that is being ignored is the intimacy factor for Sting. If I was him (but with my normal sized ego) I would be sick of playing to 10000 people. I would be yearning for an AtT kind of thing. I remember a story, though I don't know if it's apocraphyl, of Sting and Dominic going down to the tubes to do a bit of impromptu busking. I won't pretend to exactly know the motivation, it may have just been a lark, but clearly he wouldn't do something like that if it weren't fun.
For 90 bucks I want to see at least dancing elephants on a carpet made of hamster fur.
I don't know why exactly, but that's hilarious. Mark. _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police
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