Wilco

I actually have a clue, been a fan of Tweedy since UT, but I still didn't get tickets. even after logging on yesterday AND today and hitting refresh multiple times. I'm a little annoyed but if I really want to go I'll find a ticket. from what I've seen and what I've been told, NO show is ever completely sold out. night of show, you could walk up and take a ticket off someone's hands who at the last minute had an extra or two. At the very least I could use the money I didn't spend to see two or three other shows on a much smaller stage.

anyhow, what I'm most curious about and now less confused is that there's a SNAIL mail newsletter. I thought I never got the email in regards to the pre-sale from last week (and no I don't read the boards here every single day…oh the horror!!).

but if 9:30 wants to email me and spend money mailing a paper newsletter, so be it….at least now i know!!


:D

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Did anyone else read BooBoo's thread from last year in which he lamented having to pay a $1.00 service charge and $2.70 for a metrocard in order to buy tickets from the box office?

Please, don't misquote me. I was complaining about the 20% markup charged by tickets.compost, not the $1 service charge. It was a ripoff then, it's a ripoff now – i.e., Golden Smog tickets aren't really $25. They're $31 with the markup. Twenty-percent, and still they can't invest in a system that handles a lot of requests.

9:30 Club sends out an email every Wednesday…FUCKING READ IT! :roll:

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
Golden Smog tickets aren't really $25. They're $31 with the markup.

If you go to the club tomorrow night and buy a ticket, it will cost you $25.

Just got 4. 4:24 be persistent

Chokeychicken - You complete me.

Hey, look on the bright side, Wilco plays one or two shows in DC pretty much every year. So it's not like the Pogues or Guns'n'Roses or anything.

Originally posted by chokeychicken:
about "pre-sales suck", "tickets.com blows," "i hate brokers," but really, the only person you have to blame is yourself. this argument comes up every SINGLE time a big name comes through, and the people who don't get tickets always find somebody else to blame.

stop blaming everybody else. we're sick of hearing about it.

i'd say 75% of this message board successfully got tickets. this is because they knew when (BOTH!!) pre-sales occured, and they knew that if you get on tickets.com at 10:04 and expect to get tickets, well, you're probably riding the shorter bus home from work today.

my best advice, if you keep up with sales and when things are happening, and still didn't get tickets, is become more familiar with tickets.com. there are a lot of tips, tricks, and other things that help you gain even a second's advantage over somebody else, which could be the difference between buying tickets on eay or buying them for face value. learn the ins and outs of tickets.com.

I think I do a fair job of keeping up with the schedules, pre-sales, news, etc. And many thanks to this forum for head's ups as well.
However, I've tried many pre-sales and this is the one big show that I got tickets.
This particular show, honestly, it was luck. There was not a ton of discussion or promotion about the pre-sales. It went very quietly until everyone woke up.
The major complaining does become droll, but seriously, blame myself? Sorry chokey, I've been locked out of one too many other pre-sales. You've been lucky I gather, so good for you. The preachy counterattack just rubs me the wrong way. (4 minutes and a pre-sale is sold out? And I'm on the short bus? :roll: It's not outlandish to want to complain a little bit.)
I've tried the methods you suggest and I don't always get through successfully.

Grateful Dead/Wilco supergroup PHILCO making debut at Sacred Rose Festival


can anyone imagine a pairing that would yield a more annoying fanbase?

Wut?!?