I was thinking of creating an anonymous ticketmaster account using public wifi since they block VPNs and just have them email me updates, but they required a phone number for the sign up so I scrapped that idea.
Edit: I decided to sign up for songkick as someone else here mentioned. It seems pretty polished and its entire purpose is concert discovery. It never asked for any unnecessary extra information either such as first and last name and phone number, just an email and a password and boom.
Actually it’s super easy.
Step 1: be poor
Step 2: come to terms that you don’t have, and likely will never have, enough disposable no income to afford 50 dollar tickets to a concert
Bonus optional step 3: be poor enough that you’ll be unlikely to live in a city where musicians will come, even if you found some money. Then you definitely won’t have gas money to drive there and see them. :)
It’s fool proof.
Even better, the tickets are nowhere near $50 most of the time anymore
I remember buying concert tickets for me and my gf for under $20. For both.
Fuck Ticketmaster.
Depends on the artist and venue. I very rarely pay 50€ or more. 20-35 is my usual price range.
Being poor is sad. The are always cheap or free local performances, they’re pretty cool. Also, I come from !fuckcars to tell you to get a bike.
Free perhaps, not really local. I love an hour from the nearest city. Lol.
I do have a bike… but it’s more reserved for riding up and down my own road for weight loss purposes. My county is rural, and does not have side walks or bike lanes, and the nearest store to me 15 miles. I am not capable of making of that ride, even if it were safe to do so.
But in principle, I fully agree. Fuck cars, fuck car culture, and fuck the governments for not doing more to make bikes a feasible option.
Try songkick.com or bandsintown.com to watch for upcoming shows. You can track artists, venues, and cities. Song kick is more flexible for tracking multiple cities. They have mobile apps or just plain old email alerts.
If you connect songkick to last.fm you will get notifications for any artists you listen to, without explicitly following each one.
Second this. Every few months, I go on songkick and look through all the artists dropping by my city and nearby areas for the next 3 months, then buy tickets for whatever shows I’m interested in from there.
This but I just gave them my email to let me know when bands I like are in my area. Super easy to use and very reliable. Even has tiny shows in community centers listed for me
I use Bandsintown and while it’s worked well most of the time I’ve encountered a few screw ups. Always confirm before buying tickets
It usually goes “Cool! That band is gonna… Oh it was last week… Fuck…”
Followed by “who are the cool bands now?”
I subscribe to email newsletters of local venues and production companies as well as a few of my favorite bands.
What makes you think I’m willing to pay to stand in a room full of people?
I went to a concert once, I am glad to announce that I’m willing to pay not to stand in a room full of people
Their website. I don’t have that many favorite music artists. Checking them out once a year to see that they won’t be performing anywhere close to me satisfies this desire 100%.
Most bands I care about have a website and an email distribution list. Most venues I enjoy also send out their upcoming events by email.
Now excuse me, there is a cloud I must go yell at.
Yup this is the way.
BandsInTown
I love the efforts you all go through to ensure you never lump reddit and lemmy in with the rest of is peers.
Neither Reddit nor lemmy meet the actual requirements of social media.
- Knowing the people you are talking to. Both Reddit and lemmy are anonymous
- Status updates on some sort of timeline.
Lemmy and Reddit are forums of forums, and if you want to get more specific they’re link aggregators. Nobody ever called the car forum you visited to ask for car help “social media” because it wasn’t and still isn’t. Same applies to lemmy and Reddit.
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"I’m not on social media just (insert social media company name).
I dont, lol.
I only ever listen to stuff online and then buy it if I really enjoy it.
I hate concerts. I don’t want to be hard of hearing later in life. Drinks cost too much. Bathrooms have a line and smell awful. Thousands of people.
I’ve been to 5 or so in my life and each time I regret it and hate the whole experience. Even artists I really like. They just sound better in a quiet studio.
I don’t understand the appeal. Can someone explain it to me please?
Some artists perform really well live. My first concert was Rush when I was 14 and that was amazing. Also they sell earplugs for concerts that lower the DB to a safe level while still maintaining clarity. You can always pregame too so you don’t spend too much on drinks
You can always pregame too so you don’t spend too much on drinks
I suspect being drunk an arrival is a large part of being able to tolerate the experience.
Live a little
Being surrounded by a bunch of people that are all excited about the same thing as you can be a really great experience for some people. It can make you feel like you’re a part of a community. Add in music you really like, some friends or people you might meet, perhaps a mind-altering substance of some sort, and for a lot of people, that’s a really fun time. If you just generally don’t like dealing with people though, yeah, it’s not gonna be your thing.
Being around the people who enjoy the same thing as you and having a good time together. It’s a social event.
I don’t. Thanks for reminding me that I should check from time to time. I usually used to use goout.net.
Browse the event listings of venues i frequent
Yep they often have mailing lists.
And Bandcamp if the artists are on there.
When I have anywhere near enough time or money free to worry about shit like that I start googling it and then maybe 8 months later I can make something happen.
My wife tracks them for me. I’m not a fan of live concerts. But my wife enjoys them, so she actively searches for concerts in our area and notifies me when a band we both like is passing through.
