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It's been a while since I bought tickets for a popular band. Most of the stuff I like I feel lucky if they ever make it to the U.S. to tour, but tickets are easy and cheap to get. I already saw Pearl Jam during the 2000 tour three times, and they are awesome, but my wife never saw them. She's a big fan. For one reason or another, we never made the effort to go see them since 2000. But this time, I ran it by her, and she was excited. Cool, let's go for it. I sat by my computer ready to pounce right at the general sale time. Yes, I know there was a 10Club presale, but it was a lottery and many got screwed(and I'm not a member, so there's that). I reload the Ticketmaster page the second it turns 10AM. The system does it's thing for a minute... and I get friggin' nosebleed seats all the way in the back. WTF? I try again. SOLD OUT? W... T... F!!!! I wait for a few minutes and try again. In the 50 or so times I try for tickets, I am either greeted with rafter seats or loge seats behind the damn stage. I'm not shelling out almost 200 bucks for shitty seats. I came across this article that will not surprise anyone: http://www.thefader.com/2013/03/06/fader-explains-beyonce-tickets/ I am not surprised, but I am still pissed. Greedy little asses have to have their incentives and crap to make more money. There's capitalism (which I am fine with), but this is complete crap. I told my father this, and he recounted his adventures of waiting in line for two days at ticketing windows to see Springsteen and the like. Yeah, yeah... I will keep checking back to see if some good ones pop up. Oh, wait, no I fucking can't: my IP has been blocked, because the dumbshits at Ticketmaster think I am a scalper or bot due to me trying for tickets a bunch of times to see if anything is released due to CC rejections. The fuckers...