Speaking of going to the bathroom somewhere appropriate, we now arrive at the adult diaper strategy.
To be clear, wearing a diaper is exponentially better than using the floor or your pants.
That is an extremely low bar.
Medical continence products exist for people who genuinely need them. There is no shame in that, and this rule is not about them.
This rule is about choosing to wear one solely because you refuse to step away from the barricade.
That is a very different decision.
You are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with hundreds of people in a crowded, enclosed environment. No position in that crowd is valuable enough to justify planning in advance to relieve yourself beside strangers.
No close-up photo is worth it.
No brief moment of eye contact with the guitarist is worth it.
No shaky video of the singer looking vaguely in your direction is worth the years you may spend replaying the decision to attend a concert in your twenties wearing protective underwear because you could not bear to move twenty feet away from the stage.
The band will not know.
The people around you may.
You can leave, use the bathroom, and come back.
Your spot may change.
Your dignity does not have to.