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HopeYouGuessMyName
The Rolling Stones - always leaders in raising prices. If tickets were only $5.50 in 1972, they sure went higher quicker. Just three years later, when I saw them for the first time from the rafters at Madison Square Garden the prices had jumped to $12.50. It doesn't take a math genius to see that the prices more than doubled in three short years. And this was BEFORE the inflationary period of the Jimmy Carter years.
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tornnfrayed
May 15th 1972 Tickets for the Stones went on sale on this date. I remember how long the lines were. Everything was newspaper, radio or word of mouth. And tickets only cost $ 5.50 Ah, the good ole days.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE 'POWER' OF THE TICKETRON COMPUTERS BACK IN 1972? It's memory was probably measured in bytes. It's speed would have been calculated using the word 'baud' which kids under the age 30 might have never even heard. It is likely that my iphone 6 is a more powerful computer than the Ticketron computers of 1972. The article does bring back the memory that in the 'old days' we didn't so much complain about the price - we complained only about the availability. Successfully buying a Rolling Stones ticket was akin to winning the lottery. This is in stark contrast to the show that I saw in Chicago a few years ago when I was able to score one ticket at the actual box office at showtime. THAT NEVER HAPPENED IN THE OLD DAYS.
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tornnfrayed
May 15th 1972 Tickets for the Stones went on sale on this date. I remember how long the lines were. Everything was newspaper, radio or word of mouth. And tickets only cost $ 5.50 Ah, the good ole days.