Even with what's now $3 billion in U.S. bailout funding in just 5 weeks: $2.1 billion in direct taxpayer moneys - and $870 million in a recent transfer of U.S. IMF deposits to Argentina's IMF account (so as to as camouflage the ongoing taxpayer costs).

who could afford Oasis tickets are probably doing ok financially, crippling economic situation or not

Though you'd be surprised how many even in that group actually struggle - many dependent on their parents/rich uncles to pay their rent, etc.

In Argentina, people often say: "estamos cada vez más apretados" ("we're worse off, all the time" ).

And since '75 - except for the 2004-13 boom (sabotaged by the vulture funds) - that's pretty much how it's been.

Pretty much drew upper level earners everywhere. Pretty steep ticket prices, refreshments ( beer! ) was terribly expensive, and the merchandise was exorbitant.

But to echo my post, everywhere I saw video from, everyone at the shows really seemed happy, and there had been no violence, even when they were at that "war zone" in Chicago.

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there's dynamic pricing, or if scalpers/bots get a lot of the tickets for resale.

I've read thousands of social media posts by Oasis fans since the tour started in July - tickets had gone on sale last year and sold out almost instantly - and quite a few fans had maxed out credit cards, taken second jobs, etc., to pay for a chance to see Oasis during a reunion tour that could likely be their last tour.

And with a limited number of shows even for a tour lasting from July 4 to November 23 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_Live_%2725_Tour - many of the fans were traveling huge distances to see them. From the US or UK to Australia, for instance, if they'd been unable to get tickets for shows closer to their homes. The early UK gigs had fans from South America and Australia and Japan because a lot of people doubted Noel and Liam Gallagher could get along well enough to complete the tour, and they didn't want to risk waiting a few months.

And there were quite a few well-off fans seeing multiple shows and spendings tens of thousands of dollars, or even more, to go to as many Oasis concerts as they could, whether nabbing tickets for every concert near them, or turning distant concerts into vacation destinations for at least a few days.

Hotels were also doing dynamic/surge pricing...but there were still fans desperate enough to fly to concert locations and pay those higher prices even though they hadn't been able to get tickets yet - just wanting to be there in case, miracle of miracles, they managed to get a ticket at the last minute.

There was at least 10x the demand for tickets as tickets available. I saw lots of social media posts from fans heartbroken over not being able to get tickets. And there was anger, too, at wealthier fans bragging about seeing multiple shows when so many fans couldn't get tickets.

Still, the fans who did get to concerts gave the band rave reviews for putting on a great two-hour show. They all felt whatever they spent was worth it. Almost all the critics gave Oasis rave reviews as well. There've been lots of articles on the tour being THE feel-good event of the year, maybe of a lot of recent years.

It would be nice if artists that much in demand could tour enough so all their fans could see them for affordable prices. But that isn't humanly possible.

It's great to see all these live shows.

I bet that registered on the Richter scale.

I can't remember seeing a crowd more animated than that.

You particularly see it after significant football match victories - all the more so in World Cup play (you can imagine!).

They'll pogo-jump, chanting for example: "El que no salta, es un holandés!" (i.e. "If someone's not jumping, they must be Dutch" - after, say, the 1978 final against the Netherlands)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=184&v=nkCOPJXVdOw&feature=emb_title