Ticketmaster Sucks the Fat One

Roger Waters tickets went on-sale today for the September 8th show at the Venue-Formerly-Known-As-Great-Woods in Mansfield, MA.

I’ve never seen Roger live.  I’ve seen the rest of Pink Floyd without him, but I’ve never seen him.

I want to go.  My friend Larry wants to go.

I volunteer to get the tickets.

Ticketmaster.com tells me that tickets go on-sale at 10:00am today.

At 10:00am today I click on the find tickets link and am brought to a page where I can search for tickets.

Except your old pal Robbie can’t look for tickets because your old pal Robbie isn’t a member of the American express gold club or whatever they hell it was called.

I click on a few of the other cities that opened up at 10, and the same thing.  You need this club things password to actually look for tickets.

Meanwhile, the people who aren’t retarded like your humble blog narrator and either physically went to a tickemaster outlet, or called a ticketmaster 800 number are buying up tickets like mad.

At 10:05 I finally get it.

The best available seats are in the section that used to be the lawn, but are now seats that just aren’t under the roof.

So I’m going to see Roger Waters for the first time.  Roger will be in Mansfield, but my seats will be in Chelsea.

Thanks for nothing ticketmaster you cock suckers.

Oh yeah, the legal scalping fee they charged me was $10.75 per ticket.

I hope they rot in some really horrible yet brutally ironic hell.