{"id":226286,"date":"2026-03-30T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/226286\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:04:08","slug":"texas-concerts-used-to-be-cheaper-than-whataburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/226286\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas concerts used to be cheaper than Whataburger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, aka 40 years ago, Texans were able to see some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/concerts-san-antonio-2026-21056997.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">biggest names in the music industry<\/a> from the comfort of their home stadiums, all for less than the price of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/food\/article\/whataburger-east-austin-renovations-21304547.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Whataburger<\/a> meal (at least by today&#8217;s prices). Those days are long over, but a recent photo shared online is reminding Texans just how good they used to have it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Austin\/comments\/1s3oraw\/concert_ticket_prices_from_the_glory_days\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Reddit user dadsmidlifecrisi shared a photo<\/a> of eight tickets from Texas concerts in the 1980s with the caption &#8220;Concert Ticket prices from the glory days.&#8221; The shows include a $13.50 ticket to see Chicago at Austin&#8217;s Frank Erwin Center on September 16, 1984; a $13.50 ticket to see Rod Stewart at the Erwin Center on October 16, 1984; $16.50 to see Journey at the Erwin Center on December 7, 1986, and a $22.50 ticket to see George Michael at Irving&#8217;s Texas Stadium on October 14, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>For context, Rod Stewart&#8217;s show at The Woodlands&#8217; Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion on April 19 has tickets starting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/rod-stewart-one-last-time-the-woodlands-texas-04-19-2026\/event\/3A006363DA8CCF13\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">$103 on Ticketmaster<\/a>, not including the service fees that landed the website in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/justice-department-and-live-nation-reach-settlement-over-ticketmaster-illegal-monopoly-case\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">$280 million federal lawsuit<\/a> alongside Live Nation. Elsewhere, Journey will be back at Austin&#8217;s Moody Center on March 31 with tickets starting at $107 for the nosebleeds, <a href=\"https:\/\/seatgeek.com\/journey-tickets\/austin-texas-moody-center-atx-2026-03-31-7-30-pm\/concert\/17886242?quantity=1\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to SeatGeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Safe to say plenty of music lovers are very envious of those past ticket prices.<\/p>\n<p>Reddit user camsnow summed it up best in his reply to the ticket post:\u00a0&#8220;I remember still paying like 25-30 for most shows, maybe 50 for a huge act coming through. That was in the 2000&#8217;s. That was before those ticket sites started botting all the ticket sales so they could jack up prices. Then they just started pricing them all at those ridiculous prices. They are trying so hard to get a full paycheck from you for just one concert, and it&#8217;s pricing most people outta being able to see shows.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once upon a time, aka 40 years ago, Texans were able to see some of the biggest names&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2108,2107,820,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-226286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-mysaaustin","9":"tag-mysaentertainment","10":"tag-mysastaff","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}