Sorry for the length up front.
Thought I'd share a little rant with you all here about my trials and tribulations at attempting to get tickets for the Tower show in PA on 5/17 only to find the rat bastard ticket "brokers" have apparently snatched them all up.
Understand I am not mad at the band, but certainly pissed at the people who take advantage of true fans as well as the idiots that pay that kind of money to these people in which they feel they can justify charging the prices they charge.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts, am I being a whiny bitch or do you agree $998 for a fucking $66 ticket is a bit much. How do you think the band would feel about this? Please share and go easy on the flames, I am relatively new to the boards.
This is a copy of my myspace blog posted today, I have Adam in my friends list and the references to him are a little wishful thinking on my part, I highly doubt he has the time to read myspace blogs:
"Saturday morning my girlfriend, Lucy, tried to get Tool tickets when they come to the Tower in Philly in May, via
www.ticketmaster.com and suffice to say not getting them made us kind of pissed.
She dutifully got up at 9am to get ready and have time to get them, I rolled groggily out of bed around 930am (come on I work nights, I didnt get to bed til 430am). At 958am she was logged in sitting on the TOOL order page refreshing at 959am it said "Find Tickets" so off she went and voila after a few seconds, yes SECONDS we got the sorry cant complete your request. WTF!!! So we tried until 1030am and nada. I tried calling the venue and got lost in automated voice mail hell. Tried calling Ticketmaster in PA, and got "This number is temporarily unavailable".
Hmm could it also be the thousands of pissed off TOOL fans that didnt get tickets as well?
Fast forward to today, I am dutifully ordering the new Tool, 10,000 Days Album from
www.amazon.com. And I have to digress here and fill out some background. I friggin love TOOL. They are, to me, the absolutely best rock band around, they are why you should support artists and pay them back for the heart and soul they put into their music. Frankly they are the only band worthy of buying any album from in this day and age of cranked out American Idolized pop and gansta crap rap. Literally they are all that I listen to.
I'll admit I downloaded the new album from the net and voraciously listened to every track about 50 or so times already. Frankly, it satisfied my new Tool stuff needs, hell it was 5 long years man!
But back to amazon.com, I ordered not 1, not 2 but 3 goddamn Tool albums. One for me, 1 for Lucy bear, and one for my brother Mike as thanks for getting me hooked on Tool so long ago. Then I see it.....
A hyperlink to "Find TOOL tickets" (W T M F!?!?!) I thought they sold out, after all ticketmaster is giving me the "DENIED" message still. So I surf on over to TheSeats.com. And find not only is there TOOL tickets but there is a shite load of them! But here's the real kicker:
Tower ticket for Tool anywhere inside the building per ticketmaster.com> $66
Starting price on theseats.com for tickets>209.00
Highest price on theseats.com for a center pit ticket>$998
Being pissed off that the ticket brokers bought up all the tickets>priceless
That's right Philly Tool fans if we want a shot to see them this time, bend over, pucker up and hope it doesnt hurt too long. This is friggin ridiculous!!! I got to imagine the guys in the band would be pissed due to the nature of their art and lyrics. It's a travesty to the working person who wants to see their favorite bands, but yet the RIAA goes after the guy/gal who downloads one Eminem song, but "legalized" ticket sharks are left alone? Where's the starving artist bitching about lost revenue with that? Does the band get any of the 1000% profit these guys make? And the bad part is some a-hole is going to buy the tickets and that's how the justify charging it.
Sad, sad state of affairs, so Adam if you do get a chance to real my little ole rant, maybe you and the guys can do something about it. I mean "Hootie and the Blowfish" did something about it (
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article//20010611/200/165 ) and frankly I'd like not to think what Hootie can do for me but what Tool can do for it's fans!"