Bullshit. I've never had problems like this getting concert tickets, EVER. I seriously thought that getting emails from EVERY single mailing list involved in the presale meant something; I was actually being rewarded, I was finally getting the inside info I signed up for at these websites in the first place.
I was confident that I could go and experience a fantastic intimate concert at my favorite local club, and afterwards thank three legendary guys for being a major inspiration for my really getting into music.
But at 4 the show sold out and my anger manifested itself as a gnarly thunderstorm that ravaged the Eastern Seaboard. Apparently even a fast internet connection and a computer with ten million browser windows, all of 'em firing, can't compete with a shitty ticketing company that crashes and misdirects people and can't form any true sort of first-come first-serve waitlist.
Oh, and why not have the radio station and some message board morons ruin the entire purpose of a secretive PRE-sale. God forbid some of these sissies should have had to prove their dedication by missing a night of American Idol or some crap to wait in a real line along V street!
No. Instead, we can either give free publicity to those shitty Sports Junkies by waving signs behind stunned murder witnesses on the Channel 9 News, or rely on computer overloads and the like to royally fuck hundreds of Beastie Boys fans. Nice planning. Hope you realize the Boys <and all bands> would rather play to fans who'd wait on line for tix than some damn lucky 9th caller who can barely hum 'Intergalactic.'
Oh well, I'll just go stop the thunder outside and rock the over-the-shoulder boombox, old school, because the fan that I am, I bought the new album today. And it is INCREDIBLE...long live the BBoys
