Ypsi Foolish said:

 

basically the reason why they do the VIP stuff is to fund the tours. i imagine that in this day and age shit isnt selling like it used to due to declining music sales and everything being 3X more expensive in a recession

 

 

if this is true, then in my opinion they should just raise everybodys ticket price a couple of bucks. dont play a $120 show for 20 people and a $25 show for everybody eles. some kids drive across multiple states to go to shows, a lot of ninjas make hella sacrifices as it is to get ticket money, people camp... all these people are vips. i am thoroughly opposed to being able to "buy" cuts that tactic is lame no matter how you try to sell it.

ftr i do dispute your claim that that is why the do it, i assume they do it to make a nice extra pile of cash at each tour stop. i also have no idea how you come at the figure that things are 300% more expensive now then they were before vip, but things cost more i get what you mean.