Radiohead's North American Tour
I tried Friday morning at 9:56 ... 9:57 ... 9:58 ... and eventually gave up around 10:01 when Theater @ MSG sold out.
Disappointing. But I think I might have written a Radiohead song with Ticketmaster's anti-robot word generator!
The non-NY shows went on sale this morning. How did everyone make out with Ticketmaster?
UPDATE: Lo-fi Koko MP3s of "Arpeggi," "Bodysnatchers," and "Cymbal Rush" are making the rounds. If you find decent quality let us know!
Posted at 4:08 PM
the same thing happened with the philly show. so disappointing...
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Struck out in Boston, too. Both shows sold out by 10:01. Curses.
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Equal frustration. In how many nanoseconds did these show sell out?
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I have front row balcony one tickets for the chicago show, only 100 bucks which is great seeing as they're already going for over $500 on craigslist
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i lost out on the MSG tickets, but this morning I miraculously got front/center loge tickets to the thursday philly show. i've got fast ticketmaster hands! we had 3 computers in my house going for it and i was the only one who made it through.
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I scored two tickets to the boston show. I tried at 9:59,10:00, and 10:01 was told there was no tickets left, but at 10:02 when I tried I found two. Kind of odd, I think the ticketmaster system is a bit slow to respond to the time, and can give you a no tickets found response, when there systems aren't fully open. I use multiple tabs in firefox, and i find that works pretty well for most shows.
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GA for both MSG Shows. Thanks W.A.S.T.E.
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You might want to be careful using tabs to buy tickets. I'd assume it worked out for you because you were only able to secure one set in any of your tabs. I tried to buy tickets to a baseball playoff game last year through ticketmaster, and decided to spring for some nice tickets. As a backup, in case the nicer ones sold out first, I tried to grab some cheap seats in another tab. Ticketmaster checks for this sort of thing, I guess, and wouldn't let me purchase either set of tickets I had lined up. It was an amazing game, too. Wish I could've been there.
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10am on the dot: got 2 tix for Toronto, balcony row Z. Ticketmaster timed out and I lost them. Pissed.
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Ha, wow, everyone's expierence wasn't that fun in getting the tickets. I got my ticket for Chicago in about 6 or so minutes & it's in the very front, orchestra section.
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how is it that tickets for these shows were on ebay before ticketmaster even began selling them? ticketmaster must set aside a certain amount to sell directly to ticket brokers.
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I got tickets to both nights in Chicago via the W.A.S.T.E. presale earlier this week. Hooray for being up late/early studying for finals.
The setlist for the first show in Europe is out. Here's the NME story about the show.
Some combo. of new songs will be there every night. I'm curious to see what old songs get kicked up. This was the first time they've played Let Down in almost ten years.
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Argh. I forgot a href tags get stripped out. Here's the NME URL: http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/22997
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Ohh, that completely blows.
They arn't even preforming in my area :/
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yeah the master of ticket really pulled it's strings for the ticket agents and scalpers....i swear they are bribed....it's just frickin impossible to sell out that fast with a 2 ticket limit and it seems EVERYONE has had no luck in getting them at 10 am...fucking stupid
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eh, fuck thom. he mumbles; i cant understand him half the time. so yeah...back to death cab...
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"it's just frickin impossible to sell out that fast with a 2 ticket limit"
Really? Last time they played in America, they were selling out 30,000-40,000 person venues (Alpine Valley, where they played in 2003 for a sorta-Chicago stop on the HTTT tour, holds 40k people).
This time around they're playing venues roughly 1/10th the size. Hence the multiple nights, and the ludicrosity (don't look at me, I get that word from The Daily Show) involved in getting tickets.
The Pixies took about ten minutes to sell out their first night at the Aragon back in 2004. Surely radiohead (a much more well-known band) selling out a venue smaller than the Aragon in less time is not that impossible.
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PS: I hate TicketMaster with a passion and am very, very, very glad I didn't have to go through them this time around.
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ughhh tickets sold out in 30 seconds here in boston
i lost out
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Somehow I scored one ticket for Tuesday's Chicago show. Ticketmaster originally said my wait time was 13 minutes while it checked for tickets; 10 minutes later it returned with row T. I thought selecting 2 tickets would for sure return no results.
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Somehow I scored one ticket for Tuesday's Chicago show. Ticketmaster originally said my wait time was 13 minutes while it checked for tickets; 10 minutes later it returned with Orch. row T. I thought selecting 2 tickets would for sure return no results.
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Somehow I scored one ticket for Tuesday's Chicago show. I was on at exactly 10:00 and Ticketmaster originally said my wait time was 13 minutes while it checked for tickets; 10 minutes later it returned with Orch. row T. I thought selecting 2 tickets would for sure return no results.
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They don't sell out in 30 seconds, it's just their system sucks. I got a ticket for Boston (and a good one) about 8 minutes after I first tried. I was using both IE and firefox separately in case one started to freeze me out for refreshing too much.
Ticketmaster is fucking bullshit either way.
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Wait...did ANYONE in NYC get tickets via TM?
I too got boned...
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i tried gettin boston tix thru TM this morning and the automated word generator gave me "almost".
needless to say. i didnt get tickets. its almost funny. almost.
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I got 8 tickets for each night in San Diego through ticketmaster. That's how we do it in AZ
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I am seeing them at Bonnaroo..For Free...with press credentials...
Ticketmaster FOOLS!
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This is what I sent to ticket master at 10:10am.
"Subject: Re: Don't miss Radiohead
I hate you Ticketmaster. You make me type the dumb fake "squigbodle" word 8 times and say I have too many browsers open when I only have two, one for each date of the concert. You suck. You have ruined the concert going industry. All I wanted to do was see Radiohead. I got up on time. I got my ticket place and your dumb word thing wouldn't work. THANKS A LOT.
Sincerely,
Adam"
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Got a ticket in the balcony for Tuesday night in Chicago. Was at Tower records in line for a wristband and for the lottery ended up being second in line! score.
Also made some girls day who was stuck in the back almost in tear thanks to the lottery system by buying her a ticket. There is my good deed for the day...
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hi quality mp3s of those at
http://www.myselfmyself.com/?p=91
and
http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com/2006/05/derby-day-big-hats-for-radioheads.html
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friday morning. went on ticketmaster to try for NYC too. i tried at 9:51, 9:52, 9:53 . . . etc. until 10:05am. it blows.
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I tried in vain as well, i was up & online at 9:30...alas no tix...but i saw on cl that one girl got tix through ticketmaster at 11:38, it appears that its not sold out yet? it doesn't appear that way on ticketmaster. but these brokers selling gallery seats for $300 a pop & orchestra seats for over $3000?!? hail to the thie(f)ves...i'm so upset i feel ill. what can be done about this horrible system? soooo, soooo, sad...:(
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i must say...i really got a kick out of those word generator lyrics and i'm surprised no one's mentioned it. kudos, scott.
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Radiohead?! Good God. Remember how good they were before Computers killed Thom Yorke, and they became the new Pink Floyd?
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1759
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We had 4 computers running, in attempts to get 4 tickets to the 2nd Upper Darby show. Everyone was in position by 9:45 and hitting refesh like maniacs... Nothing. It was very disappointing, goodbye awesome roadtrip!
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I bought 3 tickts for Boston, all singles (one on a friend's credit card since the limit was 2).
We're relatively close together, but the Boston venue is pretty lenient about letting you move around.
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I was at KOKO.
It was amazing.
& Someone I met there is just giving me their spare ticket for the next London show as well.
Life is great :)
(thanks for the links, mmbop)
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I scored 4 tickets for both MSG shows at 6 am via WASTE; there's no other way to get tickets. A buddy of mine scored 1 GA ticket via ticketmaster. I don't know how - I tried to get tickets for another friend on Friday morning via ticketmaster and was immediately shut out. I don't think it's rigged - just tremendous demand for a limited supply. Ticketmaster.com crashed in 2000 for their Roseland show too.
Oh and before anyone screams "scalper", I'm not. All my tickets are spoken for - me, my g/f and 2 friends. I remember sleeping on the street for the $2 bill show and seeing the scalper slime in the front of the line. That will always bother me.
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I was, no, actually I still am infuriated with my Ticketmaster experience. I tried to get tickets just as they went on sale...and I mean just as they went on sale. I was refreshing the page every second, and still didn't get any tickets. There has to be something fishy with that.
My wait time started at 9 minutes.
Then it went down to 5 mintues.
Then it went back up to 9 minutes.
Then it went up to 13 minutes.
Then it went down to 5.
Back up to 9.
Down to 3.
And then it said there were no tickets available.
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You wanna kill broker's and scalpers? DON'T BUY THE FUCKING TICKETS FROM THEM!!!!!! Everyone bitches about them, everyone. But you can't get tickets for whatever, and you cave, bend over, and take it up the ass, giving these clowns the extra cash to keep buying up MORE tickets. And don't think you can save yourself with a fan club membership, b/c there are ticket broker-only websites with daily updates of all the fan club, radio station, and other relevant passwords and when those pre-sales go onsale. (Remember the U2 chaos last year?) Hell, most of them join the fucking fan clubs, just for the ticket presales, and it works! What's a 30 dollar membership when you're gonna get away with charging at least double the face value? It's nothing. Literally the only way to get rid of them is for everyone to just stop buying their fucking tickets. But, people are weak, and would rather bitch about it but still buy from them JUST THIS ONE TIME! Ticket scalpers and ticket broker companies are more often than not very small operations with the same budgetary concerns that the rest of us have. You wanna give them cancer? Resist the urge to give them more money to keep doing it.
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w.a.s.t.e. got me pit tickets for Night 1 in Philly and both nights at MSG
I heart life.
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The whole Koko show is avaliable on dimeadozen.
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I got 2 tickets to the MSG show through ticketmaster. Just lucky timing I guess
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I got 2 tickets to the MSG show through ticketmaster.. Just lucky timing I guess
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Philly went fast as well... both nights in something like 21 minutes.
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21 minutes my ass.
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Somebody beat me to it, but luckily Scott, you and many of us will get to see them at Bonnaroo (albeit in my case w/o press credentials). I was gonna stress myself trying to get Philly tix but I knew going to tm was gonna be a beyotch, so I'm glad I opted not to. I'm surprised they didn't pick a larger venue for Philly for the shows.
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The moral of the story?:
Start a kick-ass blog or go to college and become a music journalist.
...You get press creds!
HA!
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The moral of the story?:
Start a kick-ass blog or go to college and become a music journalist.
...You get press creds!
HA!
p.s. I really am sorry about your ticketmaster experiences...those bastards
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Radiohead is good. Is this the best we have to get up on a perfectly good Saturday morning to try to get tickets for from Ticketmaster?
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Ticketmaster website is a joke. I refresh the screen (pretty consistently from 9:57 to 10:00) and finally see the link for "get tickets" at 10:01 (per my computer clock). The page I reach does not have a drop down box for # of tickets, it's an incomplete page probably due to too much traffic on the TM site (the rest of page loads completely). So an incomplete page keeps me from having a shot at Boston tix. I gave up after seeing no tickets left for either Boston date, which I guess was stupid, since it looks like people got tickets even after this point. Thanks, Ticketmaster.
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REposting this - now that we have a place to say this:
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GODAMMIT, I HATE THIS MUSIC BUSINESS!!!
There I was, from 9:30 to 10:00, with my finger poised on the refresh button for both dates. At exactly 10:00:00 I refreshed and tried to get tickets. After 3 minutes in line, turned into 10 minutes...I didn't get tickets.
How is that humanely possible?
And now, less than a half hour later, you can buy them everyone on the internet for a 500% markup.
If I were Radiohead, I would never tour. It's such bullshit that this is how it works. I will not pay $400 to see a band!
ARGH!!!!
OK, thanks for letting me rant...I feel better.
Posted by: richard at May 5, 2006 10:31 AM
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I was able to get 2 GA tix at 10:06 even after being told repeatedly by TM that there were no tix available. Persistence, people, persistence!
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There are lossless versions of Koko available via bit torrent:
http://www.purelivegigs.com/forums/showthread-t_3611.html
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=94352&hit=1
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suckers!! i will see them at Bonnarooooooo!
http://www.pondracket.com
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Got GA for SD, apparently the entire venue is GA :-)
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couldn't get tickets for the boston shows on ticketmaster at 10 on the dot, but scored four from nextticketing at about 10:15am. that's the last time i even try to use tm.
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dude seriously...i love radiohead & wanted to see them in boston on one of the two nights they are playing but they sold out in TEN MINUTES! it was crazy. but yeah the ticketmaster word generator thing...yeah that was funny :)
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i tried to buy tickets off w.a.s.t.e. , but even those sold out in about two seconds. all but the ones in montreal. i bought two. i live seven hours from montreal. but i just bought some tickets for the MSG show for way too much money. hopefully someone will buy the montreal ones. i'm not jacking up the price, just trying to get rid of them now. they're on www.stubhub.com
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hey emily i want to montreal tickets do you still have them for the same price you bought them?
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fuck ticketmaster and scalpers, I pop all them cocksuckers full of ammo if I only knew who they were1!!
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