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Tour Prediction and Speculation Thread Tour • Page 49

Discussion in 'Tour Forum' started by troyplaysbass, Jun 6, 2025.

  1. ComedownMachine Jul 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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    yeah as someone who lives in San Diego and regularly goes to shows in LA, absolutely not lol
     
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  2. swboyd Jul 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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    are we still lucky to be here? Prestigious

     
  3. ALT/MSC/FAN Jul 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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    It's chaos. Be kind. Prestigious

    It also sucks because as great as it sounds, it's hard for someone like me who lives 1-1.5 hour away from every major venue and I can't take off work to buy tickets AND go to the show, y'know?
     
  4. alkalinexandy Jul 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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    See, that Hot Mulligan tour is another solid sweet spot for me. Adore the opener (Anxious) and direct support (Drug Church) with a middle act I've checked out and kinda dig but wouldn't mind checking out (Arm's Length) and a headliner I truly do not care much about... But wouldn't mind seeing live and am maybe kinda hoping that seeing them might get them to finally "click" for me?

    But if I feel like leaving early I'll feel like I've got plenty out of the evening because I've already seen the two bands I love, y'know?
     
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  5. michael_gatto Jul 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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    I could see that being the case for Hot Mulligan. They put on one hell of a live show.
     
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  6. paythetab Jul 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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    Even venues are hiding the "face value" prices on their sites. Example: www.930.com
     
  7. makeasound Jul 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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    Newbie

    When I was 16 my friend and I got to a record store at 3am with her mom for *NSYNC tickets. We were second in line.

    The record store came out an hour before tickets went onsale and made everyone take a slip with a random number, no advance notice or anything that they’d be doing this, and then re-lineup in that order. We ended up way the hell back and got screwed out of anything remotely decent.

    I refuse to go back to that lmao
     
  8. Phil507 Jul 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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    Resident NYC snob Supporter

    Yeah also in those days you might get stuck with someone who barely knows how to use a computer trying to work a system they have no experience with. Definitely worse than today.
     
  9. cashlion Jul 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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    I had way better luck scoring tickets during the refresh spam days. The lottery system behind the virtual queues make them a crapshoot. Fortunately, the vast majority of shows that I attend aren't ones that require a queue.
     
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  10. Phil507 Jul 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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    I also had better luck during the old days but I think that's more due to the fact that the general public has become much more hip to the ticketing on sale process coupled with streaming democratizing the whole music consumption market.
     
  11. DarkestDayOfMan Jul 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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    Honestly I think most problems would be solved if secondary market sites made it impossible to charge an absurd amount over face value. Cap it at 10-15% more (to make back the service charge maybe) and I think you'd see the scalper market online die down quite a bit. But I know that'll likely never happen and is probably more idealistic than it sounds.