Please see:
http://www.facebook.com/Scalpi...

BIG props to James & the gang for adding 4 shows @ T5 to diffuse the demand for MSG tix. Ya know what? It's gonna work... Cheers!

Oh my lord people are so F'ing stupid, lazy, and entitled. Anyone with a brain understands that just because you're on ticketmaster.com and immediately click "Find Tickets," they're not all available at once. But no, apparently getting denied once by Ticketmaster means the show is sold out. We've come a long way from the days of bracelets, random number drawings, and waiting in line at actual box offices, yet clicking our mouse once and not getting what we want now means the show is sold out.

Keep trying, assholes. I'm sure it's sold out by now but there's this thing called patience and not whining and trying ticketmaster over and over again for 40 minutes in order to get what you want. If TM actually released all tickets at once, then their servers would crash and people would complain anyway. They have a decent, perfect as it can get system of trying and trying and trying and eventually getting lucky. Considering we get to do it from the comfort of a keyboard, I find it hard to believe there's a better system.

I managed to get a solo ticket during presale the other day, totally forgot about today though and now I can't go by myself because my wife wouldn't appreciate that. I'd love to rip someone off but I guess I'll just sell it to a friend for face value.

Seriously, people, get a clue as to how to get what you want off of TM.com. It's not difficult, and there's no way this is the toughest ticket in town.

For what it's worth, Ticketmaster does, in fact, make available every ticket that it knows will be available all at the same time. Sure, some blocks get released to the general public later (promotional tickets that don't get used, additional floor seats when the final stage configuration is determined or when additional roll-away bleachers are added, etc.), but that's all a function of the promoter or venue not notifying Ticketmaster about those seats' availability until later.

Also keep in mind what happens a lot of time is everyone clicks in at the beginning and some get through, so now "I" have 8 tickets set aside for me... and if I just give up on the price, and close the window, those seats aren't available for someone who clicked one second later than I did. But they WILL be available for someone who clicks in three minutes later, when my cart times out and they get returned to the pool.

But one thing it ISN'T is Ticketmaster just trickling tickets out at some reduced pace to save wear and tear on their computers. Believe me, I know some of their people who work on their ticketing systems, and their systems can handle that sort of thing just fine.

This happens to a lot of shows these days. You make sure you're there the instant they go on sale, but there are never any available. They're all on StubHub. Like Ticketmaster wasn't a big enough scam already.

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Hey LCD why not cancel the show, take a hint from other bands like NIN, and sell direct so you do not get ripped off. Trust me, it has worked for other bands and it can work for you.

If I was a fan I would tell everyone I know not to go to that show and let them (ticketmaster & stubhub) eat the tickets.

If they play MSG they might also be required to use TicketMaster.

Hey they need retirement money.

Actually it is quite possible that "MSG sells the entire show out like that instantly". 'Putahs is amazing nowadays. As for the mini-revolt... do you really think that the twitterverse was going to explode with everyone celebrating their ticket purchases? Of course it's just the complainers. And I'm actually surprised stubhub has ONLY 1000 tix.

THIS SUCKS AHAAAAAAAAA. They said there were all those tickets at less than two-hundred yesterday, so I think most of them not snatched up.

Actually StubHub did respond to James Murphy's tweets:
@lcdsoundsystem part of being a marketplace that connects buyers and sellers is giving fans the freedom to price tickets however they want.

and this gem:
@lcdsoundsystem for fans who want to see the show at MSG w/out busting their bank account, there are currently 753 tickets for $200 or less.

The cheapest ticket is $139...

isn't there a god damn app thingy for this or SOMETHING??

Well, I think that argument is flawed. Because we don't want to go for other people, or so we can brag that we saw them. We want to go for our own experience, so it doesn't matter whether people will know them in twenty years or not.

And stubhub thinks people are going to pay thousands of dollars for this? Does the price of the ticket included being allowed to watch James Murphy's next prostate exam? Sheesh, they're a good band, but seriously...

"Dude, I saw the *last* LCD Soundsystem show back in the day!"
"Who?"

Did they say it wasn't their last show or something?

Something was fishy about this sale. When NO human being on the twitterverse has reported being able to purchase a ticket, it only hints that some advantageous computer programs or back-room deals have swept up all the inventory...

That's exactly what happens.

It's outrageous that StubHub hasn't been shut down. There have been court rulings favoring both sides, so apparently the courts need to see more lawsuits before it's legally settled. Which is bullshit, because it is so obviously scalping. If they were reselling other ill-gotten merchandise on this scale, they'd be shut down in a second.

In the meantime, thanks, Meg Whitman. You may not be screwing Californians from the Governor's Mansion, but you're lining your pockets by screwing music lovers everywhere.

What Stubhub does *isn't illegal*. That's why it hasn't been shut down. And, at the end of the day, if you're the lawful owner of tickets, you *should* be able to sell them to someone else for whatever the market will bear.

Now, that said, when *nobody* but brokers and scalpers manage to get tickets, that calls into question the "lawful obtaining" of said tickets that I mention as a qualifier above, and that sort of thing absolutely should get investigated and if people are hacking the system (either the computer systems or the human-interaction systems) then those folks ought to get their asses kicked.

There's no way scalpers took all the tickets. 20,000 seat arena with 1,200 tickets this morning on stubhub, means that scalpers only had about 6-7% of the tickets. Now if we saw 10,000 tickets on stubhub, then there should be someone looking into how the scalpers got half of them. At the end 70% of the tickets were probably bought by fans. It looks bad because 60,000-100,000 fans were trying to get those 20,000 tickets.

There have been rulings both for and against StubHub, but yeah, focusing on the "lawfully obtaining" issue, those people are guilty as hell.