Conspiracy theories and pop icons
I got tickets to see the one, the only Madonna.
All my life I have pretty much refused to pay more than $20 for a concert ticket, no matter how much I love the artist. Recently Laurie invited me to see Prince with her. I was very excited about this but realized I would have never tried to get tickets for that show. After talking with Dave J. he made me realize that you just gotta decide what it is worth to you. I started thinking about what shows I might pay big money for. One that crossed my mind was Madonna (and I did not even know there was a tour coming up). I mean I have not listened to Madonna on any regular basis since the 6th grade, but when I do hear her I love it and I know for a fact it will be an amazing production. Friday I was perusing Pricketmaster looking for other shows and saw this Madonna link. I clicked it to find that tickets were going on sale the very next morning. I was hoping since this information of her coming had slipped past me that perhaps no one else in the city knew about it either… yeah- fat chance. So at 10 am I clicked BUY and of course got nothing. I checked eBay at 10:06 and found loads of tickets for sale already. Wow, was I hot with anger at that moment? Hell yeah. So my theory is that Pricketmaster does not even sell tickets to fans anymore, only brokers. They keep maybe 100 nosebleed seats available for the public as to not look TOTALLY suspicious. So instead of taking it up the ass from Pricketmaster, one would have to take it ten times over from a broker. I was outraged! About 2 hours after admitting defeat I went back to check how the ebay auctions were going. I noticed tickets for a date other than what I was trying to buy. I hurried back to Pricketmaster and discovered 2 additional shows had been announced, the third of which I bent over for, but at least it was only once to Pricketmaster instead of ten times over for those even dirtier rats.