11.5.09

A Word on Tickets


There has been a lot of discussion this tour about the insane prices of tickets and how horrible scalpers are and how if we all just refused to buy from them then the problem would go away.  This is total crap.  Phish tickets are the most expensive tickets around because Phish is the best live band around.  Period.  Supply and demand.  It's that's fucking simple. 

Furthermore, who hasn't used the Phish scene to make a buck?  Phish tickets, just like drugs, sell themselves.  It seems that people fail to realize the manner in which the Phish organization has created this issue.  No longer can I get tickets out of Doniac Schvice by sending away in the mail, because after breakup #2 Phish laid off all its "tickets by mail" people in Burlington and allowed the mailorder system to be run by a large company.  They did this in order to make more money.  

I suppose what annoys me most about this are the people doing the whining.  Shut your face and just find some fucking tickets.  I am broke but I'm still gonna be in there.  However, the element of this issue I find the most retarded is the notion that Phish scene is somehow unique in its desire to get fans into the show.  Phishheads scalp tickets on ebay because Phishheads are a morally vacuous, greedy lot.  Like the bandmembers themselves, most fans are upper-middle class whitey's who love money and things.  For christ's sake, look at the way the band has taken to merchandising the shit out of every fucking thing they have ever done.  If Mike Gordon thought he could get away with accepting donations for the band he would.  Those guys love merch.  And so do the fans. Stop pretending your scene is so special.  Because it sucks.

Im going to go throw up now...

9 comments:

  1. you need to edit your shit or else you sound dumb. Funny stuff, though.

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  2. stop pretending you're so special. stop listening to phish and get a goddamn girlfriend; or a phirlfriend, cause what you need is an ear and a hole to put your dick in, not a blogspot attempting to get personal with numbers on a counter while fondling your weak hard-on with the thought that somebody might notice this and say "hey this kid is not only snarky but ALSO SHREWD, what a guy. so witty and genuine." this is the most pathetic excuse for a waste of time.

    phish sucks. and what's worse than phish is their live show. and what's worse than their live show is all the drug dumpsters that think they understand. phishheads and phish music and phucking phish fans phucking one another is more frightening to me than cancer peppered with swine flu. better yet, phwine flu.

    i want you to take a good couple of hours and just stare at your blog and then at your relfection in the mirror. and then rightfully change the name to "whiny little bitch drug head that needs a good ass kicking or starvation retreat." stop being such a phaggot, please.

    i love you very much,



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  3. Damn dude, seems to be raining shit over there.

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  6. > If Mike Gordon thought he could get away with
    > accepting donations for the band he would.

    I already offered him $50 to actually name the new album "The Best Fucking Phish Album Ever!"

    http://twitter.com/PhishTwit/status/1773535748So far he hasn't accepted :)

    TL

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  7. ARGH!

    Why must Blogger mangle my comments every time?

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  9. I wish the the ticket prices were a lot higher to keep the kind of phish phags that follow this blog from going to the show.

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