Black Sabbath fans gobsmacked at ticket prices for Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show

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1. Taxes need to be paid. I don’t think people realise how expensive it costs to produce or run anything in the UK.

2. What an insane event, amazing lineup. Tickets seem cheap if anything

3. Depending on how it’s run in the day (like Metallica having a decent length set). That looks like a festival, so those prices seem reasonable to an extent. Plus the money goes to charity.

   It’s just shitty Ticketmaster and scalpers that will ruin it

4. People somehow shocked that a product with extremely limited supply and extremely high demand has high price.

5. black sabbath fans going to a concert for the first time it seems

6. These days, I’m gobsmacked at prices for absolutely everything.

7. Who’s holding the gun to their head forcing them to go?

   FWIW I thought he was dead.

8. I remember seeing them at a day festival 25 years ago paying under £30 for the whole day. There were rumours then that would be their last performance (Bill Ward was pretty ill).

   To me at the time they seemed ancient as they’d already been going 30 years.

   (Edit: they put on a great show)

9. Have these people been living under a rock for the last ten years? Then again the Moon is a giant rock 🧐

10. Why not just make a new kick ass album? Shows at this age and health wise seem pointless. You need no promotion at all at this level.

11. No one is shocked.

    Music goers know the cost of these things, we know how much Download is this year, we’ve seen the lineup and thought about how much each act would cost individually, we also hate Ticketmaster.

    Anyone who doesn’t know about the logistics of having simply Metallica play a show, let alone all the other massive acts, won’t understand how little the acts are actually taking whilst still paying their crews a living wage.

    It’s probably been a decade since a metal lineup has even come close to this one and it’s not happening again that’s for sure. Compared to the Oasis tour it’s a bargain.

    We all know those ‘Mega Ultimate Special Circle’ tickets are for the London brigade to buy up, take one photo with their face in the way, then disappear back off the the vip toilets to powder their noses.

12. Ozzy Osbourne did something so let’s all pretend that paying £187 for a concert is normal.

    Would rather spend £30 on seeing some actual talent

13. For that lineup and all profits going to charity? It’s fucking cheap.

    Fashionable to moan about costs through.

14. If you are daft enough to pay these prices, they are daft enough to take your money.

15. I was going to get some tickets, but not at those prices!

16. Massively long concert with multiple legendary artists all coming. The price is actually quite low if you would combine what a normal decently priced concerts of all artists together would cost.

    All profit goes to charities so its not even greed. Just covering costs and donating leftovers.

17. I mean, if that’s what people are willing to pay… they could list them cheaper but then presumably arbitrage would take care of the difference

18. I mean the guy has fucking Parkinson’s and is 142 years old, nobody is expecting peak David Lee Roth ffs.

    Also he has always given every last drop of himself, however little that may be, at every show.

    Christ even if he was wheeled out, gave a weak little wave and went “ahahahahaa” be for that baseline came in I’d consider £200 worth it.

    And then there’s fucking actual Metallica who are still probably the biggest metal band on the planet as well as various percentages of Slayer, Pantera and AIC.

    Then there’s also Anthrax, Lamb Of motherfucking God and Gojira!

    And THEN!..

    There’s appearances from the from men of some of the best bands of the last 30 years, Billy Corgan, Jonathan Davis, Fred Durst (fuck you Limp Bizkit are brilliant) and Sammy Hagar (ok fine!) Also Zakk Wylde which will be sick, Tom Morello to make the sound guy cry, actual fucking Slash (and Duff)

    Basically this is a late Gen X/early Millennial dream gig for the price of a decent meal out with wine.

19. As long as customers / fans are willing to buy then these companies are more than happy to exploit said buyers, and the exploits are only ever going to keep getting more exploitative until said fans / customers stop purchasing, which we know will never happen in a big enough number to make them think twice about doing it, and they know that all to well.

20. Considering the rumours atm that Ozzy is in a wheelchair and can barely speak, anyone who risks any money on these concerts is an idiot.

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