People pay for concert tickets just to watch the concert through their phone. amirite?

Whilst I agree with the sentiment. It's not difficult to press record and point the camera at someone, then look at them live

Or they might have to watch the concert through the screen of the tall person standing in front of them

I recently crossed off a bucket-list venue by seeing a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. It was a beautiful evening with Andrew Bird, Iron & Wine and Neko Case playing their hearts out to an attentive sold-out crowd... and almost no one did this.

I came away with maybe 5 still shots and 2-3 brief vid clips from the entire evening... and promptly did nothing with them. But the memories are vivid AF.