Pontiac, Mich. ? Talk about getting stuck with the cheap seats.

The Pontiac Silverdome, built three decades ago for $56 million, is being virtually given away — sold at auction for a paltry $583,000. That comes out to $7.25 a seat, a fire sale that’s reduced the once-proud arena to another sad symbol of the Detroit area’s economic collapse.

Under the Silverdome’s air-inflated, cross-hatched silver roof, the Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley have played. So have the Detroit Lions and the Detroit Pistons. In 1987, Pope John Paul II drew more than 90,000 for a Mass there.

Now it’s an abandoned laughingstock.

“An 80,000-seat domed arena and its 127-acre site sold for less than a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan,” Jon Stewart marveled on “The Daily Show.” Not just any apartment — one “with a rodent problem, above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley.”

Mostly unused since the Lions moved to Detroit’s Ford Field in 2002, the dome has saddled Pontiac with a maintenance bill of $1.5 million a year. Drive-in movies were briefly shown in the parking lot, but plans to convert it to a casino, mall, minor league baseball stadium or entertainment complex have all failed.