So what time should we line up for Sufjan Tickets?

[Summerteeth]

Washington Post recommends camping out.  Line expected to start at 8 AM Friday.  Accurate?

[Vas Deferens]

thursday evening ... lol

[lukiedookie89]

Damn, 8 AM on FRIDAY?!  I was planning on getting there around 7 AM on Saturday.  Maybe I need to rethink this.

[crevers]

Call me what you will, but I'm pretty sure tickets for Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" are handed out immediately after the Sufjan tickets, and I think that'll be the better performance.

[Reod Dai]

Okay, so I just found out that tickets are being distributed today.  Anyone have any idea what the line is like?  Is it worth it to trek down there?  It's just after midnight right now, so I imagine either I'm already shit out of luck or I'd have to go down NOW and freeze my ass off for eight hours or so.  Any information that could help me make a decision, anyone?

[lukiedookie89]

There are over 2000 seats in the place.  I highly doubt 1000 people are gonna be sitting out all night.  Just get there early tomorrow morning.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Jeez folks, it's Sufjan Stevens, not Jesus Christ.

[kookiemnstr8]

Apparently if my friends and I had gotten there at 5:30 like we were planning we would have been out of luck.  Frankly, Sufjan Stevens is not worth a night in sub-freezing temperatures.

[jbcapati]

We got there at 2:00AM and we were around #500 in line...I'm guessing they wee half way through the ticket allotment when we got ours.  ncluding the morning arrivals, there must have been 1,500 to 2,000 people there trying to get tickets.

[lukiedookie89]

The turnout was amazing.  We got there an hour later than planned, but I'm still not sure if we would have had any luck.  
 So if anyone doesn't have anyone to give their second ticket to, I would gladly take it off their hands.  For money even.    

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

is he really worth all this fuss?

[snailhook]

no.

[Random Citizen]

I wonder if it has more to do with the "I stood in a line for X hours" story you can tell friends/family than the performer. Given how easy it is to purchase tickets online now, being in line for a night seems like a flashback to 1987.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Random Citizen, when I was your age, we stood in line for three weeks to see Jimi Hendrix at the MCI Center!

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Jeez folks, it's Sufjan Stevens, not Jesus Christ.

True. This is ridiculous.