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I saw Blue Oyster Cult last night.  Look at how close I was to the stage.  Tickets were only $55 plus a small fee (non Ticketmaster, yey!).  I'd rather pay $55 to see one of my top 5 bands (first CD I bought with my own money was a BOC CD -- Fire of an Unknown Origin in 1986) rather than drive 75 miles away and pay double to sit in nosebleed seats to see whatever current auto-tuned pop star is hip.

One of the t-shirt styles they were selling said Blue Oyster Cult -- 1972 to Forever.  I was born in 1972, so I wanted to buy one but they were sold out.  All 1,350 seats were sold out in the beautiful Robins Theatre.  There were even some young people there.  There's really not a bad seat in the house in these smaller venues, and it's actually better to sort of sit in the middle of the venue for better audio.  I was near the bass speakers.  About 10 of us got to fist bump Buck Dharma.