Economics of the Lollapalooza Schedule

Smart of Perry Farrell and Co. to wait as long as possible before announcing the official daily Lollapalooza schedule breakout. All the better to sell more three-day passes. For those of us who don't want to drop $140 (soon to be $150), the patience might have paid off. There is talk that daily will eventually go on sale. Shall I purchase a one-day pass, three day pass, or just say to hell with it? Let's break this bitch down.

For your reference, take a gander at this here grid o'bands. Here's what I'd like to see:

Friday: Eels, The M's, Stars, Ryan Adams, Iron & Wine, Ween (total: 6)

Saturday: Feist, Built to Spill, Calexico, Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips, New Pornographers, Manu Chao, Kanye West (total: 8)

Sunday: The Redwalls, The Hold Steady, Hot Chip, Nickel Creek, The Shins, Of Montreal, Wilco, Broken Social Scene (total: 10)

Important to this experiment is the following catagorization:
Artists you can likely see for $15 or less
Artists you can likely see for $15-25
Artists you can likely see for $25 or more

Let's run some numbers here to see if it's worth the price of a one day ticket, which isn't on sale yet, but we'll go assume it will be $70 after ser-charges. In that case, we'll add the average value for each color, let's say $10, $20, $30 respectively and then divide by half, since most of these groups are only playing 45-60 minutes, or approximately half of a normal show.

The numbers look like this:

Friday: $55 value
Saturday: $75 value
Sunday: $60 value

Now, let's add a $10 emphasis to the groups that I most want to see -- Eels, Ryan Adams, Iron & Wine, Hot Chip, Wilco -- and look at how the math comes out.

Friday: $85
Saturday: $75
Sunday: $80

So Friday then? I gotta say, I'm not convinced.