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Penn Kids Spending Millions To See Stars Of 1999
Tonight is the first (albeit unofficial, I think) day of Penn’s Spring Fling, the annual weekend where Penn kids get drunk highly-organized activities instead of unorganized ones. The biggest event is The tickets, naturally, sold out in about five minutes, and the group that organizes the show released a few more tix via a lottery. Oh, well, tough break for those who couldn’t get in, right. Uh, no. Yes, one enterprising person set up a website to sell tickets exclusively for tonight’s Ben Folds/Third Eye Blind concert. The Daily Pennsylvanian reported tickets were going for prices between $35 and $80. The site has since been shut down, but tickets are also on sale from Craigslist for about $80 each, and Penn police vow to arrest scalpers in front of the venue at tomorrow’s concert. Also, the group organizing the concert is full of snitches, as the co-director said “[w]e have reported it to the Office of Student Conduct.” This is the first year in ∞ the concert is actually popular and has scalpers, so naturally the group organizing it wants to shut that down immediately. Meanwhile, you don’t want to know what tickets to a Matchbox 20 concert are going for. pennbenfoldstickets.com |
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The concert is actually Friday night, but I have heard tickets going for as much as $100, which is a little sad.
I am embarrased to admit that I ever saw Third Eye Blin (or 3EB, as the kids called it back then), even though I actually saw them when they were actually popular, in 1998, my freshman year of college. I’m even more embarrassed for my friend/roomate , who thought it necessary to “camp out” for tickets (thank god Al Gore invented the internet, doing away with the need to do such things). He was up at like 4:00am in December in State College, PA,where it was like 5 degrees.
Penn Student: Whoops, thanks for that. It’s fixed.