Radiohead!
Matt and I got up early-ish on Saturday to score some Radiohead tickets. We had four computers in the living room, each with the Ticketmaster site open and pointing to the event page. We hit F5 repeatedly while "No tickets available" was flashed in the browser window until about 10:05am, at which time the page changed and we were greeted with a choice of how many tickets to buy.
I picked 2 tickets and quickly hit "submit", and about 7 minutes later I had sealed the deal! We'll be seeing Radiohead in March for the first time, and I'm thrilled.
This post could easily gone in a different direction. If we'd been unable to buy tickets, it would be a long rant about the absurdities of modern music ticket-buying. As it were, we played the game well, but it's silly that the game was necessary at all. Maybe some day bands will figure out that there are better ways to sell tickets that reward fans and penalize scalpers. Until then, I'll keep firing up several computers and hitting F5 over and over ...
I picked 2 tickets and quickly hit "submit", and about 7 minutes later I had sealed the deal! We'll be seeing Radiohead in March for the first time, and I'm thrilled.
This post could easily gone in a different direction. If we'd been unable to buy tickets, it would be a long rant about the absurdities of modern music ticket-buying. As it were, we played the game well, but it's silly that the game was necessary at all. Maybe some day bands will figure out that there are better ways to sell tickets that reward fans and penalize scalpers. Until then, I'll keep firing up several computers and hitting F5 over and over ...