The afternoon before the Wilco concert at the 9:30 Club, we browsed around Craigslist and eBay just to see what tickets were going for. Scalpers were asking anywhere from $50-$100 per ticket, and desperate fans were promising the equivalent of their first born baby to gain entrance. Geez, we thought. Maybe we should consider selling our precious tickets to the highest bidder — we weren’t huge fans of “A Ghost Is Born,” Wilco’s last recording, and think of all the dozens of bottles of cheap wine the money could finance!

In the end, though, our better angels (and obsession with lead singer Jeff Tweedy) won out, and we headed over to the 9:30 Club. Sure, the hundred dollars worth of bad merlot we would have purchased with our profit margin might have been nice, but the 27 or so Wilco songs, banter from Tweedy and an overall energetic, two-hour-plus show were worth it.