Best Ticket price

What was the best ticket price you ever PAID (not free)  ...I remember paying $8 to see AC/DC and Judas Priest...Paid $12 to see stryper with hurricane and white lion...paid $10 to see accept/coney hatch/krokus

$10 bucks to see the Ramones in Staten Island, NY in 1988. My first ever club show, my first mosh pit. Best ten bucks I ever spent.

(Going over my old concert stubs)
Whitesnake for $16 9/24/87
Sam Kinison for $17.50 11/25/89
Cinderella $16.50 3/28/89
RATT $13.25 7/24/85
Journey $13.25 7/19/83
AC/DC $14.50 10/10/85
Van Halen $13.50 6/15/84
Iron Maiden $12.50 3/2/85
Dio $12.00 11/16/84
Ozzy/Metallica $14.50 3/29/86
Saw Beck do a Tsunami benefit in Hollywood '05 for $10.
There are more but I can't find all of my stubs right now.
(BrokenTulsa if you've been an Okie for awhile we might have gone to some of the same shows, lol)
Chris

$11.00 to see Loverboy and Zebra

$13.50 for KISS/Accept

I'd love to see those prices again.

This thread is depressing to read when I'm debating paying $100 for a bad Kiss/Def Leppard seat; and $50 for a general admission Tesla show!

I think I paid thirty for a ticket to the Monsters Of Rock Tour at RFK Stadium in 1988. And complained up until show time about the price. Actually I think my big complaint was ticketmaster adding "fees" to the price. Of course it ended up being worth every penny.

Here's a sad comparison:

I saw Peter Gabriel in DC back in 2003 or 2004 and paid $88 a head for my g/f at the time and I to get as close to the front as possible. We were maybe 8 rows back and dead center.

If you wanted to see him now, those seats would be closer to $300.

That kind of thing blows my mind more than a little.

On this date in 1986, I saw my first ever concert - Judas Priest's TURBO tour at the Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey. Dokken was the opening act.

Ticket price was a mere $15.50. Damn, times really have changed.

Haven't been to enough concerts to say. However, I've mostly seen bands at smaller venues so I haven't spent a whole lot on tickets.

Fat Freddy wrote:

On this date in 1986, I saw my first ever concert - Judas Priest's TURBO tour at the Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey. Dokken was the opening act.

Ticket price was a mere $15.50. Damn, times really have changed.

Some people want time travel to exist so they can see ancient civilizations and solve great mysteries. @#%# that! I just want a time machine so I can see prime Priest for less than $20!

Runicen wrote:

Some people want time travel to exist so they can see ancient civilizations and solve great mysteries.  @#%# that!  I just want a time machine so I can see prime Priest for less than $20!

T shirts were around $15 too, if memory serves. I bought one from each band for less than it would cost to buy ONE shirt at a concert today. Haha

...it was so long ago that Don Dokken still had his real hair!

$25 paid for both days.

Lovecraft wrote:

$25 paid for both days.

That sounds awesome, but where the hell is Califfornia?   

Lovecraft wrote:

$25 paid for both days.

That's about what we paid for this :

Can't remember the ticket prices for most shows back then.... but I do think my first show was under $20. I remember people complaining that tickets to U2 for the Achtung Baby tour were $28 bucks and that the TicketBastard fee of $2.00 was highway robbery.

Ugh... Ticket fees...

Those things made sense when ordering online wasn't the ONLY option available. It's gotten to the point where I'm more likely to build in a "Plan B" when it comes to travelling for shows so I can buy them in the box office on the day of the show rather than pre-order. Talk about crap business models...

I saw a show with headliner Girlschool with opening acts Goddo and Anvil ages ago for $5.70. A local radio station sponsored the show and sold 2 tickets for $11.40, as their call letters and numbers were XL1140.
Any show in the eighties were not expensive at all.
Saw Fugazi in 1999 for ten bucks-no sevice fees.