"Fukc me?".......Fukc U2!

[yyz]

These "cult heros" continue to crack me up. It's funny to watch their "enlightened" sheep let themselves get led by the boys straight to the slaughter house!


http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mymod/hdln/r...&cid=638&e=3&u=/nm/20050204/en_nm/music_u2_dc

 

[Blitz]

I am a member of U2.com and I did get tickets through the pre-sale. Even if I didn't, at no time was I under the impression that I was guaranteed tickets. Shame on these people if they didn't understand that. In my opinion there is no way anyone could blame the band, they were just trying to give loyal fans an extra shot at getting tix. U2 is probably the most popular band in the world and they could play concerts every day and there would be people still left out without tix.

Here is a copy of a letter I received by e-mail from the drummer, Larry Mullen...

An open letter from Larry Mullen

This is not something that I would normally do, but I feel that I have
to do something to redress this situation.

There was a mess up in the way the tickets were distributed through
U2.com for the Vertigo pre-sale. Some of it was beyond our control, but
some of it wasn't.

I am now in the process of figuring out a way of distributing the
tickets for our intended return to North America in the fall. The only
fair way of doing this, is to give U2 Propaganda members, who are now
U2.com members, priority in the queue.

After that, people will be given priority in the order in which they joined.
Many people who joined U2.com and didn't get tickets are
understandably angry. They now have the option to get a full refund of
their subscription fee.

The idea that our long-time U2 fans and scalpers competed for U2
tickets through our own website is appalling to me. I want to apologise
to you who have suffered that.

If your U2.com pre-sale experience has left you disappointed, I hope
this will go some way towards reassuring you of our total commitment
to our audience.

Slainte
Larry.

By the way, a note to those so-called U2 fans who are quick to accuse
U2 of unseemly behaviour, I've only got two words for you...

 

[Penguinfan]

I'm not sure what direction you were going with that post YYZ, as a Rush fan I am sure you have never had the frustration of not getting seats to a sold out show JUST KIDDING. Seriously though it looks like just a big screwup by underestimating the want for tickets, nobody really looks guilty of putting the screws to anybody. I dunno, back in our day it just seemed better to sleep outside the night before tickets go on sale and weather the inevitable free for all when the doors opened at Kaufmanns in the morning, survival of the fittest has always seemed to work out best.

 

[theGibber1]

please take the time to read

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=11worst

 

[Penguinfan]

OMG Gibber was that funny. I am a casual U2 listner and I though it was hilarious.

"The wall won, get over it" Holy shit.....

 

[yyz]

Blitz,

It seems "unseemly" to me, that a band charges $40 to it's fans just to be members of their fan club!

Perhaps fees like this are the norm, but it seems a little "over the top", to me. Honestly, I don't know anything about fan clubs, so I don't want to speak out of turn on this. Perhaps you can tell us what the membership entails? If you get a shirt, or some coupons for music, I guess I can see some kind of fee, but not if it just gives you the right to stand a little closer in the ticket line.

I have nothing against the boys in the band, and I like their music, but they have always portrayed themselves as champions of some cause or another, while stuffing their pockets as full as they can.

Hey......make all you can, but if you choose to do that, don't be sanctimonious.

 

[JT]

Lmao, that was funny. I heard one of new songs on FM today and was utterly unimpressed. I was a huge fan in the 80s up to 'Achung Baby' but they lost me after that. My favorite of theirs is still the first album 'Boy'.