I'm not sure how many of you are into LCD Soundsystem, but I'm sure a lot of you are at least familiar with them. They announced their last show evarr, scheduled for April 2nd [same date as ferry, I know] to be held at MSG. Maybe some of you even tried to buy tickets for it, like I did, and failed..like I did. The show sold out really quickly, during the pre-sale.

James Murphy released this rant the other day as a response. I know scalping isn't that big of a problem in the EDM world (or at least I haven't encountered it as often) in comparison to other sorts of shows, but the sentiments Murphy expresses are universal I think. For those of you that aren't too familiar with LCD, you may know him as the co-founder of DFA Records.

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this here is just to say that we were more than taken aback and surprised about the speed of ticket sales for the april 2nd msg gig, as well as the effectiveness of scalper pieces of fucking shit at getting their hands on said tickets before fans could, and it?s knocked us on our asses.

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we?re announcing all the shows at once, and if they don?t sell out, i don?t care. i just want to give people who actually want to see us a chance to see us. for a reasonable ticket price. and i want to drop the price of the msg tickets being sold by piece of shit scalpers.

^regarding 4 shows at terminal 5 that they're adding

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oh?and a small thing to scalpers: ?it?s legal? is what people say when they don?t have ethics. the law is there to set the limit of what is punishable (aka where the state needs to intervene) but we are supposed to have ethics, and that should be the primary guiding force in our actions, you fucking fuck.

I thought it was a really great read. This certainly wasn't the first time I've been unable to get tickets because, presumably, scalpers swooped a ton of tickets up but I feel like it's been getting worse and worse lately. Coachella sold out in 5 days this year with a half-way decent lineup...but certainly not enough huge draws that would merit 3 day passes selling out that quickly when they barely did last year and previous years the 3 day passes pretty much never sold out. Even the one day passes wouldn't sell out for all days. This year it was just scalpers, obviously.

Something's gotta give......

Last edited by LAdazeNYnights on Feb-13-2011 at 20:18