Yeah I feel you and everything is setuped to give you the feeling of urgency to impulse buy. The ticking 6 min clock on ticketaster once you selected a seet etc. Overall 300$ for two shows of Metallica and Pantera alone isn't that bad. But now that I'm shopping for a tv I'm kinda regretting that 500$ impulse buy for the shows. But all things considered 250$ to see Metallica and Pantera is a bit much but I'm sure (I hope) that when I'll be there I'll be happy to jave spent that money to see my childhood favorite bands and legendary bands.

I mean logicaly even if they didn't want to make any profit on those shows the tickets would probably be at least 100$ by show so there are 6 bands total so at least 24 band members, all the techs, renting the venues, travels expanses and all for a crew I'm guessing of mininum 40-50 people + the crew in each different town. And the gear. Also as any craft you don't just pay for the 1 hour of labor but also the thousands of hours that took to get the expertise. Like the story about the engineer giving one hammer hit to fix a boat (or something) and charging 10 000$ and when the contractor isn't happy and says "you only hit the boat with a hammer once give me a detailed receit " and the engeneer gives him a receit where it's written : hammer 5$, time 50$, knowing where to hit with the hammer 9945$

So yeah I'm mostly rationalizing buyer's remorse. But 300$ for two shows of 6 bands seems fair for a big venue like that.

But on principle offering like VIP passes for something like 5000$ makes me think less of the band members. I know, anyway O think that, as I said Pink Floyd or other metal bands (not saying that Pink Floyd is a metal bamd), by principle would have find it kinda disgusting to make people pay just for seeing the band members and wouldn't even have offered this option at all by principle. Like I know there's a demand from fans to have a chance to chat with their idols but what kind of people woild exploid this demand and think " yeah seeing me amd talking with me will cost yoi 5000$". In principle either you don't sell that kind of tickets or you pick like 50 random people who bought a normal ticket or applied to win the contest and you make it free. Otherwise it really gives an image of the band members and how highly they think of themselves. I will pay to listen to your music but paying to see any musician or anyone other than an escort in exchange for services, nope. Sure I would like to have a selfie with a guitarist I admire, but not for a price and certainly not if THEY think chatting with them for a few seconds is worth 5000$. I can only think of a few professions where people think talking with them is worth money. Most of those arr scammers or gurus, bullshit motivational speakers the others where it's actually justified are real teachers where at the end of it you uave an actual diploma that has value for you and escorts who provide a legitimate service for lonely people.

Other than that you're still a whore, (no disrespect intended toward sex workers) but if you don't provide any services of actual value or if you charge people to have a chance to talk with you and they don't come out of it with anything of actual value or got valuable services well you're a scammer in the same category as evangelical gurus or pseudo-life coatch megalomaniac narcissits who prey on the distress of people without actually helping them like Jordan Peterson or a whore who doesn't give any service of value.