[burningyen]

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Anyone who has bought tickets, did you join the "fan club?" Was it a good idea / necessary?

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I joined and got 4 tix via the fanclub presale and then got 2 more tix via the public sale for the August 3 show at Madison Square Garden. There's been a lot of controversy and disappointment in the fanclub about the quantity and quality of tickets that were set aside for the presale. Like the old Catskills joke, the seats were crappy and there weren't enough of them. On the other hand, if you're not expert with your Ticketmaster ordering skills, you have a better chance of getting tickets via the presale than via the public sale. The public sale sold out in like 2 minutes and I had to scramble like mad to get those 2 tickets. But whereas the very best top dollar tickets I could get in the fanclub presale were far loge seats, I was able to score (even more expensive) middle floor seats in the public sale. So there are definite tradeoffs.