Comments | silentkid: close call

silentkid

close call

Mar 12, 2009 11:35

I was too giddy at discovering My Bloody Valentine was actually playing Dallas, that I didn't think to check when tickets were going on sale. Figuring it would be some time in the next week before I could get my hands on tickets.

Perusing FrontBurner discovered that not only could I enter a drawing to win tickets, but that THEY WERE ALREADY ON SALE ( Read more... )

music, my bloody valentine

Comments 4

suspiria March 12 2009, 16:54:32 UTC

Using Ticketmaster is such a traumatic ordeal! I always feel like I've cheated death when I make it away alive with tickets in hand. =P

silentkid March 12 2009, 17:33:07 UTC

Tickets were $37. After their service charges it was $53!!!! That's service charges that equalled 1/2 the ticket. WTF!

And Billy Corgan wants us to think a Live Nation/TicketMaster merger is a good thing?

suspiria March 12 2009, 18:16:04 UTC

I was so excited when I heard that Live Nation was going to start selling their own tickets. That lasted about 2.5 seconds before Ticketmaster was in the picture. Blah.

silentkid March 12 2009, 20:09:52 UTC

Used to be many options in the area, but now there is only a single independent venue for mid-sized shows that doesn't use TM for ticketing. All the others in the area now goes through the TM behemoth.