kronsk said:
The whole concept is childish crying about not playing your favorite song. Ticketmaster crying... Not to mention setlist/finding your christmass presents...
Guilty Your honor
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
Apparently, what it boils down to is that you're pissed because you couldn't purchase excellent U2 tickets because you have kids. You're also pissed because you feel that, as a former Propaganda member, you deserved better... an early Christmas present even.
To a certain extent, I empathize with you. Kids are not cheap. But everyone will agree that they are invaluable as well. With that said, you were able to afford $15k on U2 concerts--an outright luxury--in the past. Many U2 fans, myself included, would have loved to have caught the earlier tours, and would have jumped at the chance to hear such classics as One Tree Hill, Seconds, Gloria (one4u2 is going to kill me!
), WOWY (with Bono's younger voice
), The Unforgettable Fire, and Mothers of the Diappeared live. You should revel in that instead of effectively asking for some kinda reward for having seen the earlier U2 tours.
As to being a former Propaganda member, I am astonished that you weren't able to get excellent tickets. Us, former Prop members, did get an early Christmas present... it came in March. Virtually every Prop member will say that U2 did right by its former propaganda members by enabling former Prop members the opportunity to purchase TWO tickets to TWO different shows. In fact, many people on this message board will attest to the fact on how EASY it was to get PRIMO presale tickets for the third leg shows. I get the feeling that you weren't even a U2.com member.
Lastly, there were tons of excellent tickets available for the October MSG shows for face value after Ticketmaster released additional tickets about ten days before the shows. In fact, I purchased a pair from TM for the 10/11 show and sat just 9 rows from The Edge. (If you want proof, check out the video I took from that show or from any of the other MSG shows, which were posted in the Audio/Video forum.)
Where there's a will, there's a way to see U2 live... Scalpers are but a mere obstacle, really.