Cure presale

You know you’ve been domesticated when ordering a new toaster oven gets you all excited. Not bad for $9.99 (after rebate) though, huh?

Do you know what doesn’t make me excited? Dealing with Ticketbastard pre-sales. I tried to order tickets to The Cure concert today via the pre-sale code posted at The Cure’s website and not only could I not find any seats unless I was willing to purchase one ticket at a time, but even that seat, while on the main floor, was way in the back. Who the hell goes to a concert alone? Ridiculous! Even worse is that stubhub.com had tons of tickets in the front. WTF? How do the scalpers get all the good seats?

It sickens me that the true fans, who were bitching up a storm at The Cure’s site (and who can blame them), can’t get decent seats unless they are robbed blind by the scalpers. It’s a conspiracy! I wish everyone would band together and refuse to buy tickets from scalpers so they’d stop the act. It’s disgusting, and I think it should be illegal to sell any tickets above face value. Also, I think Ticketmaster assists the scalpers. I bet they sell the better seats to the scalpers above face value so they can make extra money and then the scalpers just bump up the price further. There are tickets online for over $250 a piece! I love The Cure, but I’m not willing to pay that much for tickets. Especially not to see them at the shitty Allstate Arena. I’d really like to take a survey of all the people in the first 50 rows to find out how they got their tickets.

I really feel sorry for some of those fans. They were so desperate to get what they thought would be better seats during the presale that they bought whatever they could get their hands on. Some even bought the tickets one at a time and now are trying to locate someone holding the ticket to the seat next to them to see if they’d be willing to swap. So sad, and pathetic. Is this what we’ve been reduced to because they can’t come up with a better way to reward the loyal fans who buy every album their favorite band releases? We have to stoop to scalpers and e-bay just to get a glimpse at the band whose pocketbooks we are lining with our devotion? If they truly cared enough about their fans, they wouldn’t allow that shit to happen.

Anyway, there’s a radio-sponsored pre-sale tomorrow morning so I’m going to try that one as well. Not that I expect any better results. I realize they only release particular seats during a pre-sale, but are you telling me the band couldn’t get better choice seating for their fans? I hate Ticketmaster so much, but luckily for them I love The Cure more than I hate them or I wouldn’t even bother.