Lend me your ears: Cheap concert tickets still exist

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI When I noticed that Guns N' Roses was playing nearby on a random Wednesday in August, I fired off a text to my boyfriend with a screenshot of the ticket map.

"Mainly not serious but," I wrote, followed by, "Is … v cheap." Less than a week before the show, it seemed Axl, Slash, and Duff had come down with a mild case of blue-dot fever .

Might we be able to take advantage of it? My Guns N' Roses fandom has always fallen somewhere between a genuine interest and a bit.

My older cousin was into them when I was at the age that everything she did seemed impossibly cool, and November Rain is still, rather embarrassingly, one of my favorite songs.

I read guitarist Slash's autobiography after rescuing it from a friend's trash — while not a literary masterpiece , it was a funny conversation-starter.

As for my ticket dilemma, I weighed the pros and cons.

On the one hand, the trek to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey would be annoying, Guns N' Roses is getting old, and Axl Rose is still Axl Rose.

On the other hand, a lot of decent tickets were available at a compelling price point, the opener, Public Enemy, was also intriguing, and Axl Rose is still Axl Rose.

We pulled the trigger.

The experience was … kind of great? Not life-changing amazing, but a fine little adventure I didn't spend that much money on.

The stadium was respectably full in the end, too.

It got me wondering whether the whole blue-dot fever thing — an online term that's shorthand for undersold events where the sea of available tickets is represented as blue dots on online ticketing platforms — might have an upside for fans.

Ticket prices are sky-high for super-hot tours, but there are also plenty of events that don't have such explosive demand .

For those willing to be slightly opportunistic — see the aging rockers and former boy banders, catch the losing team already out of the playoffs, strike at the last second — there are good deals and good times to be had.