The Drudgery of Scoring Phish Tickets
The moment that the Phish announced the second leg of their tour, thousands of fans filled out their "mail order" lottery submissions. Back in the day, when I used to see Phish in the 20th century, we had to go to the post office with fistfuls of cash and purchase money orders which we'd stuff into a envelope that I'd draw cool things on the outside like pot leaves or stick figures of Fishman playing the vacuum. I usually had 75-90% of my orders filled that way. And if I didn't I had to call up Ticketbastard in another city to snag tickets or stay up all night and stand in line with other heads at an local outlet.
These days? Any moron with a credit card can get a shot at the lottery. Any moron. And that included the dozens of friends and family and co-workers that you bribed to help get Phish tickets. Is that a "dick thing to do" or are you simply utilizing all potential weapons at your disposal? Buy a ticket and take the ride.
Alas, the day of reckoning is upon us. How many phans will win the lottery by Midnight tonight? How many lucky fuckers will hook up with a golden ticket to Red Rocks?
During the first leg of summer tour, I was virtually shut out. After 151 Phish shows (at the time before the three at Hampton), I managed to score three tickets to Burgettstown. And they were lawn seats too. Once that happened, I knew that I was doomed on this summer tour and had to pray that my friends scooped up extras against the scalpers, brokers, bots, and other miscreants who gobbled up Phish tickets then sold them at 10x face value.
Alas, I'm not keeping my hopes up high... with mail order/lottery and the looming Ticketbastard fiasco which will unfold this weekend.
So, my advice to all Phisheads? Start hording cash to buy extras from faux-fans raping their fellow heads or from nameless faceless dickless brokers who loathe the entire Phis community. If they had an inkling of love, they'd just charge face valueand take the extra bonus karma points that came there way.
FYI... cash or kind trade for your extras!
Photo credit: The Wookie
These days? Any moron with a credit card can get a shot at the lottery. Any moron. And that included the dozens of friends and family and co-workers that you bribed to help get Phish tickets. Is that a "dick thing to do" or are you simply utilizing all potential weapons at your disposal? Buy a ticket and take the ride.
Alas, the day of reckoning is upon us. How many phans will win the lottery by Midnight tonight? How many lucky fuckers will hook up with a golden ticket to Red Rocks?
During the first leg of summer tour, I was virtually shut out. After 151 Phish shows (at the time before the three at Hampton), I managed to score three tickets to Burgettstown. And they were lawn seats too. Once that happened, I knew that I was doomed on this summer tour and had to pray that my friends scooped up extras against the scalpers, brokers, bots, and other miscreants who gobbled up Phish tickets then sold them at 10x face value.
Alas, I'm not keeping my hopes up high... with mail order/lottery and the looming Ticketbastard fiasco which will unfold this weekend.
So, my advice to all Phisheads? Start hording cash to buy extras from faux-fans raping their fellow heads or from nameless faceless dickless brokers who loathe the entire Phis community. If they had an inkling of love, they'd just charge face valueand take the extra bonus karma points that came there way.
FYI... cash or kind trade for your extras!
Photo credit: The Wookie
Comments
The internets are wonderful, but I'm skipping this year's tour. The scene seems overblown and out of control. My guess is that Red Rocks '09 is going to make Red Rocks '96 seem like play time. And it might just kill the whole thing entirely.
fuck scalpers
no chance on the internet either - they got computer programs that shut you out
I think they should find selected festival sites positioned around the US, buy the land and sell their own tickets
all you need is a big open field ... right?
fuck this shit!!
-KD
FYI.... KD has extras for Darien Lake that hes trying to trade for Hartford. Shoot me an email if you can help KD out.
Hola
Brando here from http://CashForYourExtra.com.
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Peace
Brando
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