Music news: Are you saving for concert tickets or a car?
Do you remember the days when you could go and watch your favourite music artists in a smaller venue for the price of a pizza and a few cans of Coke?
Now we’re having to start saving plans earlier, at the possibility of an upcoming tour, with artists selling out entire football stadiums for the price of two months’ rent.
Music News Blitz writer Evie Scroggie, who loves a good live performance, discusses this dramatic economic shift.
Dreams vs debt
Once upon a time, saving to buy a car or to move out of your family home meant you were growing up and embarking on the journey that is responsible adulting.
Now it just means giving up your dream of seeing Beyonce...from the back of the venue...with an obstructed view.
If you and a friend are planning to go enjoy your favourite artist from the front row pit in their upcoming tour, you’d better start saving now...for their next tour in a few years.
Unbelievable extra costs
Just general admission itself is already enough to set you back on your rent, plus your utilities bill!
But now there’s all sorts of extra additions you can add to your booking to just keep mining chunks out of your bank account.
A VIP package costing over £600, surely I get to meet the artist before the show starts? Maybe even a backstage tour? Right?
Wrong.
Maybe you can enter the venue early and use the bathrooms and the bar before everyone else, and I’m sure that tote bag and wall poster will be a constant reminder of the incredible (-ly expensive) time you had!
And don’t even get me started on the service charge...
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The new financial reality
It won’t be long before financial advisers start including ‘Taylor Swift' s next concert’ in their checklist when they ask you what it is you’re saving up for.
That is before they point out the fact that for the price of two standing tickets you could buy a new car, insure it, fill the entire tank with petrol and listen to her new album on the radio – whilst holding back your tears in the driver’s seat.
So the next time you find yourself tempted to take that dramatic chunk out of your bank account, you could also be enjoying the luxuries of paid rent and food on your plate, without the need for binoculars and a second job.
But I totally get if you choose the concert.
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