The joy of niche music taste: cheap live tickets to small venues, and cool merch. Multiple times I could have touched their instruments from the floor section.

The pain of niche music taste: Depending upon their genre and your city’s size, they may never come nearby you. New York and LA get everything, Kansas City folk better like country and speed-rap.

Here in Greece concert performances of foreign bands/artists cost around 30€ to 90€ (depending on how well known the artists are) and many times it is a festival with more than one band performing.

I think Greek bands/artists charge around 0€ to 30€ for concerts (0€ because some do it out of charity, to help a cause)

Btw I think I've never used ticketmaster, we have a viva.com which handles many of the tickets (and it too is an annoying service).

The problem with that is that they are usually in tiny venues, often with no seating (some of us have issues with standing for a few hours straight), and absolutely terrible acoustics.

I went to see a favorite (relatively small) band of mine a couple of years back, but the venue was so tiny and...I guess echoey isn't quite the word, but it sounded terrible and unclear, and with no seating, such that I couldn't even make it through the opening act. I was glad to have supported a favorite band financially, but it was pretty damn disappointing. Guess maybe I should get a wheelchair so I have somewhere to sit at events like that.