BARBRA STREISAND - GREEDY WHORE

As anyone who knows me already knows, I buy many concert tickets. As a result, I get emails from Ticketmaster for certain special promotions for ticket presales. I received one a few weeks ago which almost literally knocked me out of my seat.

Barbra Streisand is touring again, and by touring I mean playing fourteen shows in about six weeks. I was one of the chosen few to order tickets before the general public to see her in Los Angeles. Remembering all the late night talk show jokes back in about 1994 (the last time she toured) regarding how expensive her concert tickets were then, I just had to look at the prices now.

$754!! Granted, that is the cost of the most expensive seat but the nosebleeds are $104. We've all been to concerts or sporting events where we've had seats so far, it looked as though we were watching from the Goodyear blimp. That being said, I would NEVER pay a hundred dollars to sit that far away. You really need to have some nerve to be willing to charge people so much for one damn ticket. I know the venue sets the price to a certain degree but looking at all the shows, there doesn't seem to be much of a variable.

Just in case there are any of you who are interested in purchasing tickets but are afraid of the quality of your seat, fear not! Ticketmaster is offering customers a "Hot Seat Package." This includes a "premium" seat, tour program, collectible laminate, and an exclusive gift (keychain maybe?) all for $1800 or so per ticket. I'm not making this up. I don't think I could! Look here for details. What is even worse about this package is if the really good tickets are being sold at an even more inflated price, you could end up paying $754 to see Babs from the ass end of The Garden.

This is a rip off of mass proportions but I'm sure thousands of idiots have already paid millions of collective dollars to see her. I don't know whether or not the shows are sold out but they probably will be by October, when she starts the tour. I'm not even sure how to wrap up a blog like this because it's so ridiculous to me. I wouldn't dream of putting out so much money to see someone nor would I want to be so out of touch with what music means to people that I would milk them for every dollar I could. In my opinion (and that's all this little web space is), if you're charging someone $700 to see you, you're not performing for the fans. You're just performing to line your own pockets.