I hope something is done to stop ticket gouging here in the USA , look on scalper ( Vivid is national)web sites they have tickets for sale to the Dead in Chicago before they have gone on sale, last week the scalpers had thousands of tickets for surprise Foo Fighters show at the Forum ,that went on sale at 7 pm on Wednesday they were gone in minutes ,show was Saturday ! The Beacon has always been a problem, Dolby Theater in LA had 4 shows for Neil Young, & recent Bob Dylan shows that were sold out in minutes,but legal scalpers , had several hundreds per show.,coachella is at least double the price now..somebody is making lots of money.

Just sell them like they used to in person. Scalpers will still hire some to wait and buy tickets but the percentage would be small.

Kids today miss out as those overnighters to buy tickets were often better parties then the shows themselves. 😛

Kids today miss out as those overnighters to buy tickets were often better parties then the shows themselves. 😛

Yeah, those were some fun times. Pink Floyd in '87 would have been the last time I did a camp out. Still got crappy seats, but we were happy to be in. For the second leg of the tour, we went ahead and bought on the secondary market. "Tickets Tonight" or something like that, a little shack of a business in down town Chicago. In those days, that meant a decent seat at 40 bucks instead of a crappy seat for $25.00, so we figured it was worth the extra bucks. This is a whole different scene we have today, though.

Fortunately for me, I've never had to be close to enjoy the music.

Much easier in those days to get tix..even with the scalpers..I remember trying to find the least known store that had a Ticketron (as it was called in those days)..There was a tiny record store on 86th Street in Brooklyn that very few people knew about. Otherwise you sat on line for hours..and had a great time, talking to new people, people you hadn't seen in awhile...INSTEAD of cursing your computer, ticket brokers, etc.etc when at 10:02 you finally get through only to see the dreaded "there are no tickets available

We camped out many a night at Turtle's Records in Roswell, GA back in the '80s. We also befriended a few Turltle's workers who would help us out with tickets. If the 2nd guy in line asked for 4 tickets, they'd print 10 and have 1 for them and 5 for friends.

At one time they stopped letting us sleep in cars in the lot or they would clear us out in the middle of the night. You weren't allowed to lineup until 7am and we'd have this almost comical dash from about 5 directions to get to this tree right at 7am. You didn't want to sprint early or they'd run you off so everyone is looking at their watch and as soon as the first person close to 7am takes off, you would see 20-40 other guys doing the same from every point in the shopping lot / street/ surrounding buildings. What a scene!

Another time, we were about number 150 out of 400 in line from Springsteen tickets in Spring 1987 at the Turtle's on Ponce de Leon in Atlanta. They handed out movie tickets and did a raffle and my ticket got us 3rd in line. We got pulled immediately into the store and it was like you had one the lottery or something. We ended up with 3rd row seats for one of the E Street Band marathon shows.

Those days were far from perfect. Sometimes the 8 or 9th spot in line got you nosebleeds and you had to take what they gave if you....if you wanted a seat.

Every major rock act came through Atlanta in the '80s, and they sold very well. The ticket purchasing process was rite of passage for high school music lovers!

Taking the family to see Stevie Wonder at Barclays for my son's bday. Citi presale at noon - was on that second nothing available. Took me a half hour to get two sets of two (lousy seats) 500 on Stubhub already