All in All I got Tix to go see the Wall

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:18 pm

Papa Willie wrote:Oh - I get it. You paid $10 for the show, but gave him an extra $65 for him to take his shirt off.

That'll rack.

trev · Post by **trev** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:52 pm

BSmack wrote:As epic as that show will be, I ain't spending 200+ to see a concert.

It came to about $285 with all the fees for 2 tickets. Stung a little.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:03 am

Toddowen wrote:Trippin' while a member of the armed forces....nice.

Pretty much standard operating procedure in '80. The drug crackdown was a few years later.

I would think even if you did get busted for getting stoned "I went to see the wall" should have been a good enough reason to be pardoned.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:13 am

trev wrote:
BSmack wrote:As epic as that show will be, I ain't spending 200+ to see a concert.
It came to about $285 with all the fees for 2 tickets. Stung a little.

The best deal you could get at the Buffalo show was 150 + fees for a single nose bleed seat. Fuck that. I seriously doubt the show you see will be any better than the time I saw The Wall at the midnight movie while tripping my face off on half a 4-way.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:44 am

BSmack wrote: The best deal you could get at the Buffalo show was 150 + fees for a single nose bleed seat. Fuck that. I seriously doubt the show you see will be any better than the time I saw The Wall at the midnight movie while tripping my face off on half a 4-way.

$150 for Waters is absolutely insane. I thought the economy was in the toilet?

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:13 am

Screw_Michigan wrote:
BSmack wrote: The best deal you could get at the Buffalo show was 150 + fees for a single nose bleed seat. Fuck that. I seriously doubt the show you see will be any better than the time I saw The Wall at the midnight movie while tripping my face off on half a 4-way.
$150 for Waters is absolutely insane. I thought the economy was in the toilet?

It's all about overly affluent types trying to make up for not seeing the original show 30 years ago. I'd rather see him play Atom Heart Mother all the way through.

trev · Post by **trev** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:49 am

My poor college student spent money to go to this show also.

Terry in Crapchester · Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:14 am

War Wagon wrote:I think that guy on the left may be 'spray.

Not enough gray hair to be 'Spray, even back then.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:44 am

trev wrote:My poor college student spent money to go to this show also.

If you are spending that kind of money for non essentials, you are not poor. Get your head out of your ass.

trev · Post by **trev** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:41 pm

He doesn't have a job and he is poor. He used birthday money to pay for the tickets.

Go Coogs' · Post by **Go Coogs'** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:48 pm

BSmack wrote:As epic as that show will be, I ain't spending 200+ to see a concert.

Still paying off those bets, eh?

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:50 pm

trev wrote:He doesn't have a job and he is poor. He used birthday money to pay for the tickets.

Well he obviously didn't need that "birthday money" for food, shelter or clothing. Tell me again how poor he is?

trev · Post by **trev** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:23 pm

He doesn't spend money otherwise. He lives in a crowded dorm, so he has shelter. He eats eggs everyday. He lives off his college fund which isn't a lot of money. He just got a tutoring job, so maybe he'll have some money coming in soon.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:14 pm

trev wrote:He doesn't spend money otherwise. He lives in a crowded dorm, so he has shelter. He eats eggs everyday. He lives off his college fund which isn't a lot of money. He just got a tutoring job, so maybe he'll have some money coming in soon.

A college fund?

Yea, real poor.

trev · Post by **trev** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:07 pm

He is a poor college student. I just sent him a food box. He doesn't have money to buy anything.

So, contrary to what you said, he is a young person with no money going to the show, not an affluent person who missed the show 30 years ago.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:09 pm

trev wrote:He is a poor college student. I just sent him a food box. He doesn't have money to buy anything. So, contrary to what you said, he is a young person with no money going to the show, not an affluent person who missed the show 30 years ago.

We he not supported by you, he would be poor. Right now he's just a middle class kid going to an overpriced concert with a bunch of old people.

Truman · Post by **Truman** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:38 pm

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trev · Post by **trev** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:45 pm

BSmack wrote:
trev wrote:He is a poor college student. I just sent him a food box. He doesn't have money to buy anything. So, contrary to what you said, he is a young person with no money going to the show, not an affluent person who missed the show 30 years ago.
We he not supported by you, he would be poor. Right now he's just a middle class kid going to an overpriced concert with a bunch of old people.

A lot of things are overpriced. Like NFL games and Las Vegas shows. Does that mean we do not choose to buy a ticket and go? What kind of reviews is this concert getting? Might be worth it. I'm taking my other son because he listens to Pink Floyd also (as well as all his friends). I want him to have this experience and it's worth spending the money to me.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:24 pm

trev wrote:A lot of things are overpriced. Like NFL games and Las Vegas shows. Does that mean we do not choose to buy a ticket and go?

If do not have the means to go (like if you are POOR or even middle class) without it negatively affecting your ability to meet your obligations, then you don't go. It really is that simple.

I went to a Cowboys game while on a business trip 10 years ago. My ticket cost 55 dollars. That same seat now goes for over 150 dollars. I don't begrudge the NFL their successful business model of creating demand for a product and then raising prices accordingly. But if you don't think the Cowboys are targeting their more affluent customers with their pricing models, then you need to evaluate just how much vodka and sperm you're consuming on a daily basis and adjust accordingly.

What kind of reviews is this concert getting? Might be worth it. I'm taking my other son because he listens to Pink Floyd also (as well as all his friends). I want him to have this experience and it's worth spending the money to me.

I've already seen DVD quality video from the Chicago show. Which is why I am certain it will be epic. Were the tickets say 50 or even 75 dollars, I would have lined up a sitter and bought tickets for my wife and I. But spending over 200 PER TICKET for decent seats means that the total cost of tickets, gas, parking, and whatever grub we eat will be north of 500 dollars. Even going by myself, which I briefly contemplated only because Pink Floyd is one of my two favorite bands OF ALL TIME, the cost would have been over 300. That's borderline retarded and certainly not something that a person on public assistance, a pension or some other income of limited means is even going to fathom doing.

I don't begrudge you for whatever money you may have, but don't cry poor on behalf of your children when you are subsidizing what is decidedly NOT a poor lifestyle for them.

trev · Post by **trev** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:57 pm

Oh please. You claimed only affluent old people are going. Not the case. At all. $300 is chump change these days.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:58 pm

trev wrote:$300 is chump change these days.

Not in "Real America."

trev · Post by **trev** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:10 pm

Sure it is. Poor drug addicts spend more than that a month on drugs. Choices. It depends on what one chooses to spend their money on.

trev · Post by **trev** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:42 pm

I carry a 3 year old flip phone. I see welfare recipients all the time with fancy 300 dollar phones.

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:47 pm

trev wrote:Poor drug addicts spend more than $300 a month on drugs.

What the fuck is a poor drug addict... isn't that redundant? Real addicts either don't have jobs or have menial jobs because they can't keep a real job.

Furthermore... $300/month?

Your 'floor' is awfully low.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:36 am

KC Scott wrote:Are you on public assistance, a pension or some other income of limited means

I'm attending school full time. I have savings that will take care of things for a while and my wife is doing OK, but I'm not doing as well as I was before I got laid off. Also, I have certain long term goals that I would like to preserve as much of my savings as possible for, Ergo, the decision to bite the bullet and not see The Wall show last Friday in Buffalo. Sometimes you have to be a grownup.

Trev wrote:Oh please. You claimed only affluent old people are going. Not the case. At all. $300 is chump change these days.

Wow. You really are an ignorant twat.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:18 am

KC Scott wrote:
BSmack wrote: but I'm not doing as well as I was before I got laid off

I didn't know - sorry to hear that. I guess I've been insulated from the economic downturn in that none of my close friends have lost job, house, etc. We all know someone that has, but like I said - it's at least a couple degrees of separation. You don't really understand just how bad it is out there for some folks until you hear a story like this - and it must be bad when porn shops can no longer afford their jizz moppers.

I know this sounds weird, but it actually worked out for the best. Without further education I was starting to dead end at my last job. If all goes well, I'll make more money coming back to work sometime next year than when I left. And even if I start at the same money, the ceiling will be higher. Plus I will have had the opportunity to be a student again. That has been a blast. Being an adult student is like having all the cool things about college learning minus all the bullshit of dorm rooms, substandard food and hall mates throwing up in your bathroom.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:19 am

Kind of ironic that this thread turned into a modern version of 'Showboat'.

But I keeps laffin Instead of cryin
I must keep fightin
Until I'm dyin
And Ol' Man River
He'll just keep rollin' along

R-Jack · Post by **R-Jack** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:23 am

BSmack wrote: Being an adult student is like having all the cool things about college learning minus all the bullshit of dorm rooms, substandard food and hall mates throwing up in your bathroom.

Yeah, but you don't get your mommy to buy you Pink Floyd tickets.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:29 am

R-Jack wrote:
BSmack wrote: Being an adult student is like having all the cool things about college learning minus all the bullshit of dorm rooms, substandard food and hall mates throwing up in your bathroom.
Yeah, but you don't get your mommy to buy you Pink Floyd tickets.

You got me there.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:07 am

Dr_Phibes wrote:Kind of ironic that this thread turned into a modern version of 'Showboat'.

But I keeps laffin Instead of cryin
I must keep fightin
Until I'm dyin
And Ol' Man River
He'll just keep rollin' along

There's a lot to be said for that attitude. Keep your head down and your shoulder to the wheel and more often than not, things will eventually break your way. Or you can constantly bitch about how others are keeping you down. Your choice.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:19 am

BSmack wrote:Right now he's just a middle class kid going to an overpriced concert with a bunch of old people.

Maybe I could go to close the deal on the Kurt Warner mom-in-law I met last week.

Dropping 200 bucks to see a dude halfway in the ground lip-sync some dusty rock opera sounds...just awful. I'm not sure the last 5 shows I went to totaled $200.

trev, you should encourage your destitute son to branch out of a generation he never lived in and check out some more underground type stuff. If he likes what he hears, he can see his favorite bands for the price of a few cartons of eggs. Plus he won't have to spend his life savings aka birthday money all at once. Chances are, no bombastic theatrics and scoreboard sized hi def tvs to keep his attention; just good, raw music in a place where he's 15 feet from the stage, bar, and pisser at all times. That's the stuff right there.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:20 am

BSmack wrote:
Dr_Phibes wrote:Kind of ironic that this thread turned into a modern version of 'Showboat'.

But I keeps laffin Instead of cryin
I must keep fightin
Until I'm dyin
And Ol' Man River
He'll just keep rollin' along
There's a lot to be said for that attitude. Keep your head down and your shoulder to the wheel and more often than not, things will eventually break your way. Or you can constantly bitch about how others are keeping you down. Your choice.

Of course...In America, if you want it bad enough and you "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps", you too can be a millionaire...

The parasitic classes mock you and your childish devotion to ignorance.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:23 am

Martyred wrote:Of course...In America, if you want it bad enough and you "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps", you too can be a millionaire...

It worked for my dad.

The parasitic classes mock you and your childish devotion to ignorance.

There is nothing ignorant about wanting to work. There is nothing ignorant about doing work. There's a hell of a lot of ignorance in blaming others for your own failings.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:10 am

Allow me, B.

It worked for my dad.

There is nothing ignorant about wanting to work. There is nothing ignorant about doing work

There's a hell of a lot of ignorance in blaming others for your own failings.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:02 am

wtf?

:?

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:20 am

Martyred wrote:wtf?

:?

He missed National Coming Out Day by THAT much. I'm sure it pains him greatly.

Terry in Crapchester · Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:46 pm

trev wrote:$300 is chump change these days.

Not for something extraneous, like a concert ticket, it's not.

BSmack wrote:Being an adult student is like having all the cool things about college learning minus all the bullshit of dorm rooms, substandard food and hall mates throwing up in your bathroom.

Maybe so, but I made the best friends I ever made in my life under those conditions.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:20 pm

I see what Phibes did there, and I will heartily rack it.

jiminphilly · Post by **jiminphilly** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:48 pm

trev wrote: He used birthday money to pay for the tickets.

That's a real shame. I saved up all of my birthday money so I could buy 15 tvs for my house.
-Sincer

IndyFrisco

Moving Sale · Post by **Moving Sale** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:46 pm

Smackie Chan wrote: Weird Al is fuckin' nails in concert. Saw him at the Ventura Fairgrounds probably sometime during the 90s, and he put on a killer show. Plus, like him, I'm straight outta Lynwood.

One of the few (only?) 20-30-40 year old acts where you WANT him to play his new stuff. Great concert.