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I’ve never been a big conert-goer. Before high school, I didn’t listen to much popular music at all. It wasn’t something that I had been exposed to when young and the first contact I had with it was probably through the BMG CD club. Remember those?

You’d get 10 CDs for $1 each, but then pledge to buy one CD at full price each month for the next 6 or 12 months or something. They’d also do something annoying, like send you a “featured” CD each month that you’d have to send back if you didn’t want to charged for it. Although the actual BMG CD club seems to long dead, the sentiment lives on with subscriptions like eMusic or the Disney DVD club.

Still, I never really went to many concerts in high school. The first concert I ever went to (aside from perhaps some free summer outdoor concerts where I don’t remember the artists at all) was a Moxy Fruvous concert in late high school. I would then see them another time and They Might Be Giants a number of times, as well as Ben Folds. But, aside from them, that’s about it. Throw in a few random concerts (Dispatch and OK Go, one time each) and that’s my life’s setlist in terms of live music.

Concerts are loud and only fun if you know the band’s music well. I don’t tend to get to know many bands’ music that well. I’d rather go to a musical, or listen to a band on a CD, or play their music in Rock Band. And, recently, I’ve felt that concert prices have become a big extravagant.

I think other people tend to disagree. Lots of people love live music and going to concerts. I understand the excitement of being at a concert, but it’s just not something I really “get.” Kind of like how other people probably don’t “get” why I enjoy watching something like curling so much.