Many years before there were very few concerts in our country, milestone like Rod Stewart performing in the Amnistia International concert in 1989 or the magnificent concert that gave Michael Jackson in 1992 are some examples of events that have a national repercution, therefore, the Chileans have a I-won't-miss-it-for-nothing-in-the-world mentality that we have till’ today. This situation allows to the national producers of musical events such as T4F, Bizarro, etc. take advantage of this situation and charge ridiculous prices for a locations in the event. Many times the same amount that the minimum wage or even doubled it. The most recent case of this situation are the pre-selling prices of the Lollapalooza event, at this date, there still no line up and not even a single band has been confirmed for the event, the prices reached the $100.000 Chilean pesos (more than 200 dollars) and the prices will continue rising. We can say that no one in its five senses would buy these tickets, but the Chileans went in mass to buy the first tickets and almost 60.000 persons have theirs. What conclusions can we make about this situation? I think that Chileans (or almost most Chileans) still have a very third-world-esque mentality, we goes bananas when we know that our favorite band is going to come and sell everything we got to go there, even if nowadays almost all the bands come to Chile, and not only once like before, but almost all the bands come many times in a very short round of years. What can we expect in the future? We do not known, just praying that the Chilean people change and the musical event producers have mercy with our pockets.
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| Lollapalooza 2012 |
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| Lollapalooza 2013 |
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