BLOG POSTS WHERE MONTH IS 1, AND DAY IS 10, AND YEAR IS 2012

Tuesday 01/10/2012 by jackl

A FEW CHOICE WORDS ON SCALPING

One of the staple topics of Phish discussion on the internet as far back as I can remember, when I first got internet access and hopped onboard the old “rec.music.phish” newsgroup in 1994, is “scalping” and the extreme dislike for those engaged in reselling Phish tickets for well above “face”.

People were complaining then about “scalpers” and three digit prices being asked for tickets to the sold-out Halloween show at my hometown hockey rink, the Glens Falls Civic Center (capacity 5,500), during Phish “1.0’s” meteoric rise in popularity in those years.

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