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Future tours: Are you planning to stand in merch lines again?
bootlegger10
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Well, a lot of us have spent a lot of time in merch lines the last few years and I'm sure some of us have questioned whether it is worth it to waste a day in a new city standing in a merch line. I'm just curious what people think about the next tour.
Future tours: Are you planning to stand in merch lines again? 151 votes
No - I will get to the venue early to be one of the first inside as long as some merch is held back for inside
11%
No - I will get to the venue when convenient for me and if there is stuff left I will buy it then
54%
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Columbus-2003
Cincinnati-2006
Columbus-2010
Wrigley-2013
Cincinnati-2014
Lexington-2016
Wrigley 1 & 2-2018
Seattle killed me last year. I spent way too much time in that line before the show and then the next morning at the Showbox to buy a bunch of shit I really didn't want.
When the hell did the stickers become the must-have PJ items, anyway?
But I look at the lines inside. In the old days, I could maybe find a booth w/ not too many people. I voted the way I did because those days are long gone. I'm there for the music and camaraderie 100% nowadays
DEGENERATE FUK
This place is dead
"THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015
"Kfsbho&$thncds" - F Me In the Brain - circa 2015
Hey anybody got spare Denver poster????
Same goes for GA. People camp out, don't see any of the city they are visiting just to be on the rail. I showed up in St. Paul an hour before doors at 5pm. We literally ended up ten feet behind people that had sat outside all day.
2005 - Sept 1 George, Sept 8 Winnipeg
2006 - May 9/10 Toronto, June 26/27 St. Paul, July 22/23 George, Oct 21/22 Mountain View
2007 - Aug 2/5 Chicago
2008 - June 22 Washington, June 24/25 New York
2009 - Aug 21 Toronto, Aug 23/24 Chicago, Sept 21/22 Seattle, Oct 27/28/30/31 Philadelphia
2010 - May 15 Hartford, May 17 Boston, Oct 23/24 Mountain View
2011 - Sept 3/4 Alpine Valley, Sept 11/12 Toronto, Sept 17 Winnipeg, Sept 19 Saskatoon
2012 - Sept 30 Missoula
2013 - July 16 London, July 19 Chicago, Oct 12 Buffalo, Dec 2 Calgary, Dec 4 Vancouver, Dec 6 Seattle
2014 - Oct 16 Detroit, Oct 19 St. Paul, Oct 20 Milwaukee
2015 - Sept 23 (Colbert)/Sept 26, New York
2016 - Apr 28/29 Philadelphia, May 10/12 Toronto, Aug 20/22 Chicago
I go to a show for the music, friends, and seeing the city. Why waste that standing in line?
Noblesville, May 7, 2010
PJ20 Night 1, 2011
Cincinnati, Oct. 1, 2014
Milwaukee, Oct. 20, 2014
Wrigley Field, Aug 20, 2016
Wrigley Field, Aug 22, 2016
Wrigley Field, Aug 18, 2018
Wrigley Field, Aug 20, 2018
St. Louis, Sept. 18, 2022
Chicago, Sept. 5, 2023
Chicago, Sept. 7, 2023
You never really had to begin with.
Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
Bring back presales for posters so I can drink more!
-Seattle,Wash-Key Arena-9/22/9 -Pemberton,B.C-7/17/16
-Vancouver,B.C-GM Place -9/25/9 -Seattle,Wash-Safeco Field-8/8/18
-Vancouver,B.C-Pacific Coliseum-9/25/11 -Seattle,Wash-Safeco Field-8/10/18
-Misoula,MT-Adams Field House-9/30/12
Again, we were there so it was a matter of standing in one line all day or another. Under the conditions of GA, yes I would stand in line again. If I had reserved or TM tickets, I'd just see what I could get inside the venue.
2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
If I have to pick up 10c tix then I'm there early already and I'll go grab the tix while my ticket buddy goes for the merch line and vice versa. But if the line is out of control then no way. All I really want is the poster and there's generally only one gem per tour. Besides, I don't understand the outside merch lines. Is it just a money maker so anybody without a ticket can walk up and buy stuff? Because those stands are useless...I mean what's the point of having a booth with 2 or 3 people working with a 1000 people in line. Stupid.
However in Portland, It was FREEZING cold and it took so long for the truck to open up and when it did, omg! the people that would stand there and try EVERY fucking t-shirt on before deciding which one to get was not really a good idea for the people still queuing behind them - still, got what I wanted and headed back to my friend's house to dump the poster safely and get to the front of the concert no problem. So when I went to Spokane, we just queued up to get in line for the front instead and avoided the merch truck which was on the other side of the arena - WTF?
Would only queue again if the poster was really that good.
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