Nanochick wrote:
Is amazing! I saw them in Atlanta tonight, and it was the most amazing show I have ever seen. I highly recommend going to see them live.

I almost bought tickets to see them at BHM except for a few things:

1) When TicketBastard was done taxing the everlovin shit out of me, it was $152.50 for two tickets (including a $6 venue fee) and
2) The venue was outdoors. Granted, it did not rain, but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay >$75 per person for an OUTDOOR venue and a rock concert on top of that and have to deal with heat, skeeters, $6 a cup beer, parking in BFE, no passes out, etc....
3) No chance in hell of getting tickets anywhere close to the stage. They went for an auction by way of LiveNation (wholy owned subsidary of TicketMaster) for $280 a head for first row, stage right and the entire lower tier was unavailable for purchase. If it was available at any time, I was unaware of it.
4) TicketMaster's helpful site politely attempted to sell me the same shitty pair of tickets in BFE multiple times, at multiple points in time. I only discovered this after realizing that two weeks had passed and it was still offering the same two tickets, whereupon I fired up another browser and got a different set of tickets, located a little closer, but not far away from the pair it initially offered me.
5) Tickets were available 48 hours before showtime, in the second tier. This tells me the event was not a sellout event, despite rescheduling to take advantage of only playing One Night In Alabama and moving it to a Saturday night.

I met a guy in a bar the night of the tool concert who was wearing a tool shirt, and asked him how the concert was. He said it was awesome, of course, and I told him about my experience with the tickets and he echoed what I'd already read: "I'd pay anything to see tool play." Thank you, sheeple.

In short, this concert proved to me that the record companies, etc. are truly holding to the mantra that "a true fan will pay any price". I rather enjoyed going to concerts the times that I have been, but once the price exceeded $100 per event, I lost interest, just like I lost interest in spending my hard earned dollars on your overpriced piece of shit product.

Corollary thought: If you're voting with your dollars, is stealing music a vote of no confidence?

RE: Tool....