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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…
no—we didn’t have a smart paperless ticketing system in place, and no—we didn’t have the pre-sale worked out very well, but this is simply because we’ve never sold anything out so quickly in our lives, and certainly never sold out anything as big as msg…
we tried calling our lawyer about the ticket scalping. “it’s legal”. No joke. It’s fucking legal. I tramped around with friends and band getting insane. I wanted to buy some expensive tickets and then track the seller down to beat him….
So to the point. You can’t make everyone happy, and i’m sure this will wind someone up somewhere….
We’re going to play 4 shows at terminal 5 in nyc leading up to the msg show, and they will include most if not all of the songs we play at msg… obviously we’re going to look seriously at the way we sell these tickets. Not “paperless, (i’ve been advised that the “paperless” thing is apparently now illegal in ny… seriously—don’t ask me) but there are some ideas floating around that could be just as effective (though it’ll take a minute to get folks in the door.)…
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.
And to everyone else: Thank you. You rule. Don’t let the shitbags win.
I feel like conan o’brien.
-james
no—we didn’t have a smart paperless ticketing system in place, and no—we didn’t have the pre-sale worked out very well, but this is simply because we’ve never sold anything out so quickly in our lives, and certainly never sold out anything as big as msg…
we tried calling our lawyer about the ticket scalping. “it’s legal”. No joke. It’s fucking legal. I tramped around with friends and band getting insane. I wanted to buy some expensive tickets and then track the seller down to beat him….
So to the point. You can’t make everyone happy, and i’m sure this will wind someone up somewhere….
We’re going to play 4 shows at terminal 5 in nyc leading up to the msg show, and they will include most if not all of the songs we play at msg… obviously we’re going to look seriously at the way we sell these tickets. Not “paperless, (i’ve been advised that the “paperless” thing is apparently now illegal in ny… seriously—don’t ask me) but there are some ideas floating around that could be just as effective (though it’ll take a minute to get folks in the door.)…
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.
And to everyone else: Thank you. You rule. Don’t let the shitbags win.
I feel like conan o’brien.
-james
Seriously, I see your point but I'm still glad that it was said 
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