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April 12, 2007

Penn Kids Spending Millions To See Stars Of 1999

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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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Fling 2007: Last chance for tickets - at $80? [Daily Pennsylvanian]
March 22: Penn Kids Gonna Party Like It's 1999
April 3: Where Were Penn Kids Going Without Ever Knowing The Way

Posted by D-Mac on April 12, 2007 11:43 AM
Posted to 1999 , Ben Folds , Penn , Scalping , Third Eye Blind , WTF

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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.

Posted by: Penn Student at April 12, 2007 01:13 PM

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.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 12, 2007 01:17 PM

Penn Student: Whoops, thanks for that. It's fixed.

Posted by: dmac at April 12, 2007 01:59 PM