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 tonight’s tomorrow night’s concert, which is headlined by Ben Folds and Third Eye Blind. (For reference, Ben Folds Five opened for The Roots at the concert in 2000.)

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.

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While Penn kids are on the cutting edge of movie-piratin’ technology, music-wise they’re apparently still stuck back in the late 1990s.

For example, the annual Spring Fling concert this year is Ben Folds and Third Eye Blind. And, uh, apparently it’s really popular:

The about 2,400 tickets available to students for the concert - which will be held on Friday, April 13 in Wynn Commons - were snapped up in the first two days of sales.

Look for the May concert of Harvey Danger, Fastball and New Radicals to sell out Franklin Field.

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