Concerts & Music Festivals Are For the Rich (we're too poor for music!)
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Concerts used to be fun, enjoyable, and memorable. Now, you have to put your happiness and love for music on credit too? In today’s episode we’re going to look at some of the INSANE prices people are paying to attend concerts and music festivals, why live music has gotten so expensive and what you can do to save live music without needing to be rich or go broke.
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| 0:30.3 | Concerts and music festivals are for the rich. We are too poor for music. |
| 0:35.7 | Yo man, do you have any water left? Yeah, you need some? |
| 0:38.3 | Just a sip. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm trying to balance drinking just enough water to not die, |
| 0:41.3 | but not too much water where I have to use the bathroom. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, |
| 0:51.3 | where you'll learn to save money, |
| 0:53.3 | embrace simplicity, and live a rich |
| 0:56.3 | your life. |
| 0:58.2 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 1:02.0 | Welcome, frugal friends. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm Jen. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm Jill. |
| 1:05.7 | And today we are talking about the death of music, really just concerts and music festivals, because it does |
| 1:14.1 | seem like unless you are super affluent or super ready and willing to go into debt, you really |
| 1:20.6 | can't go see live music anymore. |
| 1:23.8 | Hi, we're the frugal friends, and we are going to ruin everything that you like and thought was good in the world. |
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