When I was a teenager, it cost sixty cents for a Coke and twelve bucks to see a rock concert. Now it costs ninety cents for a Coke and a hundred dollars to see a rock concert. What the hell happened?
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You had coke back then?
we even had New Coke.
by the 8-ball…
Well it certainly isn’t due to the fact that the music today is 8-1/2 times better than it was back in “the good old days”.
Live Nation + Ticketmaster = little competition
file sharing + itunes = less revenue from selling music and more need to make money from concerts.
You can search the inventory of record stores all over the world right from your computer at GEMM.com . Vinyl’s better with coke! Or it’s just plain better..
Where do you get Cokes for 90 cents? They are $1.49 here.
How about cereal for more than $4.00 a box and bread for almost $3? That’s how I measure things. Sure is getting expensive to eat. No wonder we’re all fat…it’s cheaper to get a Value Meal from McDonald’s than to make a salad at home.
WaWa.
I used to be able to buy a week’s worth of food for $20. Try that now. No way!
You can still do that.
It’s just not “food”.
Back in college $20 of food for the week meant a 12-pack of Ramen and $18 bucks worth of Magic: The Gathering cards, but that’s just me.
You can eat McDonald’s every day if you eat the right things. And no, I don’t mean 1 chicken nugget.
prices just stopped making any kind of sense. it bugs the shit out of me too.
how come records only cost $7.00, but cds cost $16, even though they’re smalle (and no one makes records anymore?)
and how come i can buy an MP3 player for the price of 4 cds, which can play literally hundreds of cds?
how is it that gallon of milk often costs more than a gallon of gasoline?
i could go on and on…
And they wonder why attendance at concerts is a pale imitation of its old self.
TicketMASTER..name fits the company. Until some internet guru comes up with an internet solution to that monopoly. Or maybe the words “Anti-trust” should be enforced.
The wife and I got our first payroll checks that included the Obama tax cut…we pay ourselves monthly and we had an extra $80 between us as a result.
We saw in the paper that Jeff Beck was coming to town, and thought hey, let’s stimulate the economy a bit and go to a concert. Tix that would allow us to stand on the floor for 4 hours were about $45 each. If we wanted a seat, we could get a cheap balcony seat for about $85 each…this is of course exclsuive of fees and a few drinks and parking.
It’s insane.
Heh – I remember nickle cokes (and ice cream cones) in a super heavy-duty glass bottle (the coke, not the cones). I think they’re collectibles now. I also remember .29 per gallon gas and .23 cigarettes. Why, when I was your age…… ZZZzzzzzzz.
yeah…the good old days™…along with dime bags and $400 keys.
Me too! You could also take 2 empty bottles of soda pop for your admission to the movie theater on Saturday morning and see weird horror movies.
Well, it appears we have confirmed our geezerhood to the world;-)
And remember how the coke bottles were from different bottling plants around the country. There was one in Asbury Park, as I recall. But they were all over the place. And the old bottle were worn down.
I went to the original Woodstock and I think that was something like 35 bucks for the three days. But I’m so old now most rock concerts happen after I’m in bed.
Serious? .. a Coke bottling plant in Springsteen town, USA? I never knew that … then again .. the Ford factory in Edison, NJ is now a thing of the past too
Dating ourselves indeed..movie tickets cost 25 cents unless it was a Disney movie which was the unheard of price of 35 cents.
OMG! We all sound like our parents!
When I was a boy, we had to walk 8 miles through the snow to get to school. And a chocolate bar cost a nickel!
and this is bad?…..why?…..
mmmmm…..bullets…….yummy…….
Because my parents hated Obama and only voted for him because Palin was a “slap in the face” to women.
Phish was only $50 a show last weekend, if you were lucky enough to get tickets for face.
Where did they play?
What happened? Celebrity of any sort has become valued more than tangible goods.
End the Federal Reserve.