Tickets went on sale this morning for the November Depeche Mode concert in Chicago. I came *this close* to buying tickets; I had my credit card info entered and everything, but changed my mind at the last minute. It wasn’t just about the money ($50 a ticket for the crap seats, $75 a ticket for the good seats, plus a $9 “convenience” charge per ticket, plus a $4.50 processing charge), and it wasn’t just about the fact that I hate the acoustics at the Allstate Arena. It was those two things combined plus how I didn’t enjoy the concert in ’98 as much as I was expecting, and that the concert this year is on a weeknight. <\/p>\n
Joe pointed out how I did the same thing the last time Depeche Mode came to Chicago. I guess I’m just not that into concerts. Now, if it had been The Cure, I would have gotten the $75 tickets without hesitation, but I guess they are the only band I’d bother going to see. Nine Inch Nails plays October 7th and I passed on those tickets too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tickets went on sale this morning for the November Depeche Mode concert in Chicago. I came *this close* to buying tickets; I had my credit card info entered and everything, but changed my mind at the last minute. It wasn’t just about the money ($50 a ticket for the crap seats, $75 a ticket for the good seats, plus a $9 “convenience” charge per ticket, plus a $4.50 processing charge), and it wasn’t just about the fact that I hate the acoustics at the Allstate Arena. It was those two things combined plus how I didn’t enjoy the concert in ’98 as much as I was expecting, and that the concert this year is on a weeknight. Joe pointed out how I did the same thing the last time Depeche Mode came to Chicago. I guess I’m just not that into concerts. Now, if it had been The Cure, I Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}