Tips for kids like me, who don't have a lot of cash, or don't want to spend a lot of cash on gigs:

There is a beautiful business that I will not name because I might get sued, or some preposterous thing like that, considering that I am not an underage kid anymore. This business can be found through many different mediums: through the web, through the phone, or through certain physical music stores or other retailers that it has specified on its website. The business that I am discussing is one of those places where you can buy tickets. This one I am specifically ranting about is the monopoly of selling tickets. There isn't any gig it doesn't sell tickets for, except for independent venues like The Echo, Spaceland, etc.
In regards to this business, kids, beautiful kids, or young people, or peers, or whatever you want to be called, before you buy your tickets in one of these businesses, do your research. Go to the venue's website before thinking of buying your tickets online, somewhat ironic, but that’s how it swims. Look at the venue's website and check out if the venue sells tickets in its box office before the day of the gig. Do this, if and only if this type of procedure is nice to your wallet, in reference to both the ticket and gas expense or bus fares. If the venue does not sell tickets in its box office, maybe they sell tickets through the phone, where you can pick them up at will call—in this case, you buy your tickets on the phone from the venue and pick them up an hour or so before the doors are opened in the box office of the venue. If none of these options are possible, then you go to the business monopoly that sells the tickets online. You go through the application process, and when the time comes when it asks you how you want your tickets, whether printed out, sent through mail, or anything else, look if will call is one of those options, and opt for that one. As you will see in the application, if you want to print your tickets you get a fee, which adds up to the fee of the tickets, plus the convenience charge plus the tax plus some other charges you don’t want to pay for. The business wants your money; try not to give in to this at any sane cost, if it is accessible and easy for you to come around to. If you are capable of selecting will call, and you are paying with a credit card that is not yours, keep in mind that if the box office attendant is an arse, you will not get your tickets, and you will have spent money in vain, and perhaps paid for your tickets at thrice the price, if you really wanted to see the band live (this comes from me to you from an experience from an acquaintance of mine. My acquaintance had bought the ticket with her father’s credit card, and though she had the same last name as the last name on the credit card, the attendant gave her a hard time. She was lucky that after harassing the attendant some time, she allowed my acquaintance to obtain the ticket). If the credit card is not yours, get a signed permission from the owner of the credit card, and present it to the box office attendant. Be ready, and harass in the nicest way if there is such a problem.
This is the last option that I give you because it is the last one that I can muster to type and not sound like I do not know what I am writing about. This business wants to rip you off at any cost because it knows that the music fanatic will pay for gigs that he/she wants to attend, so, fight it and do your best not to conform.
This is the first tip that I have to scream to you in words. It's the one tip that I follow constantly as much as possible because I don't want to pay thirty something dollars for a ticket that would have cost me fifteen dollars if I would have bought it from the venue in which the show was held.

-C.S.H.