u/perrysplus

Warning: rant post

Like, holy fuck it’s insane. I was pretty close to barricading for sleeping with sirens, the first time I went to barricade for any show, yall might’ve noticed me if you saw a super tall dude up front. Now don’t get me wrong, I expected crowd surfers. What I didn’t expect were for there to be two crowd surfers on top of me at once, repeatedly. The crowd crush was pretty messy too, and I completely lost sight of my poor 5’0” gf, who was right in front of me, for most of the set because of how compressed everyone was. She also got kicked in the head a few times pretty bad by crowd surfers because i just couldn’t keep track of everyone coming in, I help one over and another one is already on me, for the whole set so I couldn’t really enjoy the performance, and the majority of them didn’t have the god damn common courtesy to CROSS THEIR FUCKING LEGS!

We decided to take a break until PTV played, and stood way back on the turf but we could still see the stage just fine. Even from WAY back there, people were still crowd surfing behind me. Not as often as at the barricades for SLS, but enough to where I had to look over my shoulder every couple minutes to check if I was gonna get a doc marten to the back of the head. Same story for the MCR set pretty much, and we were even further back than we were for PTV.

Is this normal for LTL? This is my first festival but not my first concert. I have never seen so many crowd surfers in my life.

I got an old technics 1200 mk2 that came with a 6800EL stylus, it’s old and needs replacing. Any replacement styli yall recommend for home listening? I live in the US.

23M. For context, I took a two year long break during college and I am back in school now as of this summer. I work part time making $18.50 an hour, 30 hours a week, a downgrade from my previous job I was laid off from making $20.30 full time. I spent about 3 months unemployed with no savings, collecting weekly unemployment until I started my new job last month. I have a full ride through school, but still took out $5k in student loans my freshman year, that’s still collecting interest since I’m still in school. My scholarships pay me living expenses, about $2100 a month in total, which in their eyes is enough so I don’t have to work during school. It really should be, but it’s not.

I live in the Midwest, my one bedroom apartment is $930 a month utilities included. The cheapest I could find with a washer/dryer in unit because I’ve had my clothes stolen before and I have a terrible history with roommates. I don’t have a car payment, in fact I can barely afford any car, yet I see guys my age buying $30k+ cars. I drive a shitty 2003 Suzuki that I bought with all the savings I had at the time last year, about $2k, that’s been hit a few times now and I can’t afford to fix anything on it.

With all my scholarship allowances and my new job income, and also donating plasma twice a week, I make around $55k a year. Temporary because I’m still in school, I’ll be making less when I graduate in a year and a half or so.

The only other debt I have is $5k in credit card debt I’ve been struggling to pay off, minimum payment of $100 a month and it’s been bleeding me for a couple years. Feels like I’m running in place there. I don’t eat out that often, maybe once every couple weeks, and spend around $300 a month on groceries. I pay liability only car insurance is about $90 a month for me. I don’t pay for any monthly subscriptions other than Amazon prime. I do go out to concerts from time to time, but that’s a fairly rare occurrence, not every chance I get. I spend at most maybe $500 a year on tickets to a concert or single festival. I do, however, drive a lot. I enjoy driving, so that’s what I do in my free time. I spend $350 a month on gas now.

My credit score is in the shitter, about 600, because I missed two payments on my student loans last year. My break from school went from an intended gap semester to two years and I forgot my student loans existed, which explains the missed payments. It’s back in deferment since I’m back in school now.

I am definitely missing something that’s taking all my money, and I can’t figure out what because my bank account really should not be in the negatives right now. How can I be better with money?