Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]
Ticket prices were always low back then. It cost like £6 to see Bruce Springsteen during The River Tour here in Edinburgh in 1981. Pure inflation has caused it.
Not only inflation - the price itself has gone up a lot. If it was just inflation, and keeping the same rate (60 pounds today - 6 pounds in 1980) something that costs 1 pound today (let's say, 2 bread baguettes) should have costed 10p back then - and I doubt that's the case. No, it's not only inflation. Culture prices have gone up at a rate that's maybe 4 or 5 times the inflation rate. Paying $200 for a officially-bought seat at a concert is ignominious and disgraceful.
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