I was thinking of creating an anonymous ticketmaster account using public wifi since they block VPNs and just have them email me updates, but they required a phone number for the sign up so I scrapped that idea.
Edit: I decided to sign up for songkick as someone else here mentioned. It seems pretty polished and its entire purpose is concert discovery. It never asked for any unnecessary extra information either such as first and last name and phone number, just an email and a password and boom.
Actually it’s super easy.
Step 1: be poor
Step 2: come to terms that you don’t have, and likely will never have, enough disposable no income to afford 50 dollar tickets to a concert
Bonus optional step 3: be poor enough that you’ll be unlikely to live in a city where musicians will come, even if you found some money. Then you definitely won’t have gas money to drive there and see them. :)
It’s fool proof.
Even better, the tickets are nowhere near $50 most of the time anymore
I remember buying concert tickets for me and my gf for under $20. For both.
Fuck Ticketmaster.
Depends on the artist and venue. I very rarely pay 50€ or more. 20-35 is my usual price range.
Being poor is sad. The are always cheap or free local performances, they’re pretty cool. Also, I come from !fuckcars to tell you to get a bike.
Free perhaps, not really local. I love an hour from the nearest city. Lol.
I do have a bike… but it’s more reserved for riding up and down my own road for weight loss purposes. My county is rural, and does not have side walks or bike lanes, and the nearest store to me 15 miles. I am not capable of making of that ride, even if it were safe to do so.
But in principle, I fully agree. Fuck cars, fuck car culture, and fuck the governments for not doing more to make bikes a feasible option.
Shitty bike infrastructure aside, depending on what your local geography is like (sorry if you’re in a very hilly area) you might be surprised how quickly you can build up to that if you make it your goal.
I’m fat, in my 30s, and until just about this time last year I had basically never ridden a bike (rode one a little bit as a kid, took the training wheels off, did a couple quick laps around an empty parking lot, then didn’t touch one again for 20-some years, I would not really have counted myself as someone who could ride a bike with those credentials) and I recently did my personal longest bike ride of over 17 miles. I haven’t been trying too hard, I get out maybe once or twice a week if I’m lucky, took basically the whole winter and a good chunk of the spring off from riding, and I just try (not always successfully) to push myself a little harder every time I get out.
I still have a long ways to go, that ride was mostly flat, if I come across any significant hill I’m still mostly getting off halfway and walking the rest of the way up, and I was definitely feeling pretty beat-up by the end, but I’m pretty impressed with the progress I made over the last year, especially since I don’t really feel like I had to put in a whole lot of effort to get here.
Doesn’t do much for being able to use your bike for actual transportation if the roads aren’t bike friendly (and I feel that, I’m in a semi-rural area myself, if it weren’t for the fact that I live very close to a decent bike trail that goes a long way in either direction and even links up with a few other trails, I wouldn’t feel comfortable riding more than about a half mile from my house with the way roads are near me) but it does still open up your options a bit. I’m starting to bring my bike places with me and using it to get around once I’m there and looking into bike sharing options for when I go on longer trips and can’t bring my bike with me.
That’s amazing! Honestly, as someone who struggles with weight, I understand how difficult that kind of task can be. Congratulations, and I am proud of you, internet stranger. Keep it up!
And I’m in the hilliest part of TN, sadly. I live on a road that has about 400 feet of flat enough ground for me to ride on, but luckily it’s just us out here, and one neighbor who has a visitor/leaves maybe twice a week, so I get to ride there 400 feet (120 meters in new money, if you’re so inclined) fairly embarrassment free, which is nice. But but unfortunately, the head of my road links up with a main thoroughfare that brings traffic from the nearest city for people coming from/going to work and such. Apart from that, there’s a bike trail that I use sometimes, but it’s only about 3 times the distance I can ride before I have to get off the bike. I’m hoping to build up to the hills, but to be honest with ya, I’m just not up to even minor hills yet. :/ I’d like to get a stationary bike to help build up to that in an embarrassment free environment. I’m super self conscious being the fat guy out there huffing and puffing because of a 4 foot incline. :/