Fools And Their Money

A List Of Things That One Should Get If One Pays $1500 To See Jay-Z And Kanye West

By Francesca Stabile Tue., Nov. 8 2011 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Fools And Their Money, Francesca Stabile, Jay-Z, Kanye West

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"I thought you said you'd take me to McDonald's"
Saturday night, after reading a flurry of tweets from Jay-Z and Kanye West's show at the Izod Center, I bought tickets to nosebleed seats for last night's Watch The Throne show at the Garden. It was worth it, though—especially since yesterday afternoon, those same tickets cost $350, with a couple of pit seats going for $1500. (Tickets for tonight's show, as of this writing, range from $200 to $15,000, which really puts StubHub's warning that tickets "may be priced above face value" to the test.) Sure, you're dealing with the secondary marketplace here, but since Jay and Kanye are all about the good life, they should be made aware of what would make a $1500 ticket worth it.

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Fools And Their Money

Would You Pay $250 For A Free Concert By A To-Be-Confirmed Band?

By Maura Johnston Thu., Jul. 7 2011 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Deer Tick, Fools And Their Money, MTK Music Festival

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If you're not doing anything else with it...
Back in the bubbly, heady days of 2007 the idea of rock-and-roll class wars was stoked by Social@Ross, a $15,000, five-concert series in the Hamptons that had big names like Billy Joel and Prince and that got deeply discounted before not being asked to come back for a second year. Well, now that we're in another moment where it's good to be rich, the East End is once again the site for some overpriced outdoor shows—at least, they're overpriced if you're a member of the "deal site" Gilt City, which is currently selling VIP-ish access to MTK Acoustic Sunsets, the series of Saturday shows at the Montauk resort Solé East that are sponsored by the brand-new, "fashion-forward" music festival Music To Know. The catch? Gilt City's selling tickets to shows that are free.

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How Much Would You Pay To See The Concert Of Your Dreams?

By Maura Johnston Tue., Jun. 7 2011 at 2:00 PM
Categories: Fools And Their Money, Jeff Mangum, Neutral Milk Hotel

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The Daily Swarm got wind of an eBay auction for a pair of tickets to Elephant 6 cult hero Jeff Mangum's September 9 show at the Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, which predates his appearance at the Portishead-curated ATP in Asbury Park by about three weeks. The asking price for the chance to be one of "hundreds" watching the gig: $5,600. Plus shipping. (Aw, c'mon!) Now, granted, the listing has been up since March and nobody's bitten yet, so perhaps the Tampa-based concern "bestavailabletickets" might wind up making a bit less of a profit. But still!

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It's Monday, And Already Many Record Store Day Items Have Been Resold On eBay

By Maura Johnston Mon., Apr. 18 2011 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Aw Dude, You Missed It, Fools And Their Money, Observations, Record Store Day

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Money, honey.
The "Hallmark holiday for music nerds" festivities of Record Store Day are a little less than 36 hours past, and as predicted, the speculators and collectors were out in full force on Saturday. And some of them are already seeing returns on their waiting-in-line investments! eBay's search engine turns up quite a few completed listings with "RSD" in their title, with surely more lurking under misspellings like "RDS" or dispensing with the branding altogether. The spendiest item so far? The limited-to-500-copies Ed Banger Bee Sides box set, a five-disc set of one-sided etched 7-inches that has a Justice demo and four other tracks that went for £497 (which comes out to about $810.36 on our side of the pond--and that's before shipping).

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