NEWS: SG Member Inspires Ticketless GN'R Concert

You act like you've never seen that sort of thing before, here on SuicideGirlsGirls.

They're obnoxious.

Cell phones are inanimate objects, they can't be obnoxious. People are obnoxious, with or without cell phones.

Cell phones (mobile phones, mobiles or "mobies" over here, the latter used exclusively by utter cunts) are wonderful things- they introduced compulsive geekiness to otherwise socially acceptable humans. It is part of the global spread of Geek Flu which should see the Cool gene eradicated within two generations.

[Edited on May 18, 2006 by sixbysix]

Um... they use this technology to get no show tickets to people who need them at the doors of concerts currently...

sometimes venues set up registries, where they can sell back their tickets to the venue if they can't make it, they then can get the serial number of said ticket and sell at the door...

just not new technology, but ill be happier than a pig in shit if all concerts go this way.

Someone was just dying to say nice work Idjiit

Idjiit you clearly have some kind of pyschic power to post something on here and it'll just happen.
I have three words for you to consider in your next post-

Dubya
Head
Explode

I ranted right here at length about the "solution" for will-call to kill scalping 14 months ago. This inspiration is outdated!

^^ I mean this thread is so retro to me.

March 31st, 2005

[Edited on May 18, 2006 by 1clementine]

Strange…I just see it as a useful tool. Granted the cell phone has modified the way we live our lives…just the like the "regular" telephone, and before that the automobile, and before that the train, the wheel, the sharp stick (ETC.)

There were people who's entire identity became focused around the original "horseless carriages"…just as there are obsessive geeks who think the coolest thing on the planet is spending the entire afternoon "texting" their best buddy 20 feet away from them in the mall. Me…I just think it's nice to be able to call for a tow truck from my car, and maybe pull up a web map when I (inevitably) get horribly lost.

The bad news is, obsessive geeks were around (albeit, by a different name) since the dawn of technology (previously annotated "sharp stick") and will be around long after we are all part of the same computerized, conglomerate memory bank. The cell phone, and the denial of said cell phone, has had little effect on that fact, nor is it likely to in the future.

I will be meditating on this for the next 24 hours.

That's been happening in Australia for (as well as I can remember) two or three years. At quite a lot of gigs.

This is a pretty cool twists to concert tickets. Even services as wanttickets and such sites charge service fees. Everyone wants a piece of the action. Ticketbasterds service fees are pretty rediculous (SP?) though.
On a side note I have been a longtime jamband music fan. I've followed bands likeThe Grateful Dead and Phish around alot. Alot of these bands have there own ticketing systems for fans. Sometimes the aloted tickets are sold out and then you gotta try ticketmaster. Service fees these bands do charge will donate fees to charity and such sometimes.
Just my two cents GDSTOO which is the Grateful Deads ticketing service has worked fine for me over the past ten years. They even been cool enough to give me front row tickets for a whole summer tour before and backstage passes for shows on my BDay.

I don't hate them so much as I fail to understand the true need for them... I understand it with people who need to be available for jobs and whatnot... or for kids/parents who need to be able to reach each other if they're not together...

but for the most part, it seems to me like something where people are paying for the privelege of doing shit that they would have no need or inclination to do if they didn't have the damn things in the first place... I suppose you could say the same thing about the internet, but still...

Just tack your phone to your wall after each concert now.

cool.