Everybody is talking about the crisis these days. Petroleum seems to be so expensive that everything is increasing prices. Besides, people in the Third World die as we have used their food to make ecological fuel…
These are really important problems, and of course I’m worried about it, but today I’m just writing about how that affects me in my everyday habits, and in one of my favorite hobbies: the music.
I usually search almost everyweek for the the upcoming concerts in Spain. As I posted some weeks ago, some interesting bands are coming next autumn: Elegant Machinery, Suicide Commando, Project Pitchfork, VNV Nation (for Christmas), etc. The majority of the concerts are in Madrid and Barcelona, the biggest cities in this country.
I was used to check the prices of the flights to go to every event I’m able to. But now, I’m quiting from it. It’s quite exasperating looking how the prices have increased so much in less than a year. I was used to pay 40€ for a flight to Barcelona and the back to Málaga, plus the taxi or bus to get the airport. It was perfect, it was affordable. For example, the Dark Christmas Festival 2007 was that cheap for me.
But now, the cheapest flight is 60€. 60 is not a big amount of money… But that means that in less than a year they have increased their prices 50%. On the other side, my salary has increased just a 2,8% in the begining of the year…
So if I used to spend around 75€ for the whole trip, including the ticket for the concert, now I will be spending around 100€ (taxis and buses have increased prices too!).
So… For every 4 concerts I would have gone to, now I have to rule out one in order not to spend more… 
