What a worthless story... tell us something we don't know, NPR.

Someone needs to do an actual investigate piece on ticketbrokers and backroom deals...

yeah - quite worthless. someone needs to sick Eliot Spitzer on the ticketing industry.

but also - i blame fans. people need to be a little more disciplined and not buy tickets from scalpers and brokers. thats really the only way to make them go away.

Astute observation Andrew...but is it possible? Will 5000 radiohead fans boycott buying tickets from scalpers? Will the theatre at MSG be empty on June 13th and 14th? Probably not because I would buy an extra. Do you have an extra?

And broken social scene deserved 4 out of 5 stars. That was a gross error in judgment.

in the case of Radiohead I'm as dedicated as they come, but I'm lucky that I've seen them already.

I'm not interested in giving tons of money to some creep-ass scalper, and though I'd go to extraodinary lengths to see music that I really care about- scalpers are the limit.

And it doesn't help that this whole ordeal seems to undermine a lot of what I thought Radiohead stood for. I'm glad to pay the cost of a ticket, artists totally deserve that. But I'm not giving scalpers a ridiculous fortune just because they got a hold of the tickets first and screwed everyone over in the first place. With what people have to go through to get tickets at this point, I'm not too sorry that I'm missing the show.

It's all about the $$$$$. I struggled with that a little while in music business school before I dropped out of that crap.

I'm all for scalpers and a market economy and capitalism and Adam smith and im better than you and I have general admission seats to radiohead and you're gonna have to listen to the bends on your shitty computer speakers. That's what I'm about.

I blame Radiohead on this. They KNOW they are playing in NYC and they have a huge fan base here and they chose to only play two nights in a dinky theatre. They could have played four nights or five or thrown in one larger venue to make this a bit better ... as to scalpers -- I know no one likes them but they are serving a need. If Radiohead -- or anyone -- is that concerned about scalpers they could limit the sales to will call only or have ticket purchasers have to present id. They don't care.

I agree with Andrew's comments about fans being partly to blame. So long as there is a market for scalpers, this problem sees no end.
Imagine if enough people decided NOT to give in to high ticket prices and bands' high guarantees. not impossible but too much to ask I suppose.

"not impossible but too much to ask I suppose." i agree unfortunately.

oh, and i stand by my 3.5 for BSS Axl, though i kinda hate that review.

irrelevant- if the tickets were $300 face, they'd still sell out

big bands will always command high ticket prices and will sell out every show- nothing will ever change that

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