Stop trading your life away for PJ20 movie!

tigers84

i would LOVE if the site went down for a MONTH. Maybe instead of breathing every breathe on this site people would enjoy life including FRESH air!!!!! Those of u buying dvds and backpacks for $300-600 are why he/I am getting bored of this forum. Dont tell me not to get on here either. GET A LIFE!! I wonder why Ed doesnt like technology. Do u even know WHY u "like" this band?? is it for backpacks?? they also produce music. How many of u r in the "fan" club after the crap started. R UUUUUUU on here for the right reasons or just for profit. I sell stuff on here and will continue. Im actually selling 95% of my PJ "collectables" bc Im tired of all this. I only want MUSIC now. Thanks for the original posting on this!!

joe2468 wrote:

it sickens me to see some of these people ..friends that i know dropping $300-$500 on a MOVIE!!!!!

LET ALONE A BACKPACK .

this entire pearl jam scene is getting so out of control .its not even fun anymore ...from buying tickets to getting posters to waiting for a new record .. EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS STARTING TO SICKEN ME AND TURN ME AWAY .and who is to blame ?????????????????????????????? THE FANS ...US...YOU AND I....

you got kids willing to sell their first born for a fucking dvd..
grown men offering up their wives for a poster
i had a guy offer to cut my grass for free for an entire summer if i could get him a certain poster.


WE ALL NEED TO BACK AWAY AND THE TAKE A BREATH ..HELL EVEN SHUT THE SITE DOWN FOR A FEW WEEKS
please dont

Lament

joe2468 wrote:

it sickens me to see some of these people ..friends that i know dropping $300-$500 on a MOVIE!!!!!

LET ALONE A BACKPACK .

this entire pearl jam scene is getting so out of control .its not even fun anymore ...from buying tickets to getting posters to waiting for a new record .. EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS STARTING TO SICKEN ME AND TURN ME AWAY .and who is to blame ?????????????????????????????? THE FANS ...US...YOU AND I....

you got kids willing to sell their first born for a fucking dvd..
grown men offering up their wives for a poster
i had a guy offer to cut my grass for free for an entire summer if i could get him a certain poster.


WE ALL NEED TO BACK AWAY AND THE TAKE A BREATH ..HELL EVEN SHUT THE SITE DOWN FOR A FEW WEEKS
please dont

Right on, man. I made a post that got locked last week talking about how when Pearl Jam played Solider Field in 1995, because of some sort of issue with the venue they weren't able to sell any merchandise whatsoever. If that happened these days you'd have one hundred threads complaining over how unfair it was that they couldn't buy a poster/shirt/keychain to remember the show for every one post you'd have about the actual show itself. It's...very different now. I'm not saying not to enjoy the posters/shirt/etc., but the perspective does seem to have changed somewhat drastically.

tremors

2-feign-reluctance wrote:

vanisle09 wrote:

If you don't like the "PJ scene" then why are you on this site. I think about 99.8% of the people on here are happy with it.

You have stats to back this up? I'd say not man. I lurked on this board back when it was known as "the message pit" from 1996-2003 and it was never like this. Joe is right, it's changed and I think it has to do with newer members. Maybe 99.8% of them are "gimme gimme gimme." Part of the a generation of "now" and "instant gratification" kinda kids.

I'm not sure if it's a generational thing, or just what the internet era has now become - 'think of something, you want it, you click on it, you got it' - and when the world doesn't work like that people start getting upset and angry..... meanwhile large parts of the world don't have clean water or reliable sanitation.....

joe2468

i like that we can have an honest chat about this ... AND NOT GET IT LOCKED ....and im also glad im not the only one who noticed the difference around here ...


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Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

dmaradona10 wrote:

Why do you think the turning point was Philly 2009? Just curious.

the fan club ticketing severe fuck up. some 10clubbers were in the rafters. it was a schmoz. the board was a lynch mob for weeks. it was brutal.

ever since then, people are a lot quicker to bitch about all things fan club.

i could not have said it any better ...... but i would add
it all started with those event only tshirts (i think it was the 2009 tour) ... people started paying 100-200 bucks for tshirts FUCKING TSHIRTS!!!! and i will be the first to tell you i spent $130 on the chicago cubs shirt that year .. and when i got it i was so fucking pissed at myself cause i spent it on something that will either get dirty/stained/torn/shirk etc etc .. it was at that moment i said this is getting out of control ...

Lament

joe2468 wrote:

i like that we can have an honest chat about this ... AND NOT GET IT LOCKED ....and im also glad im not the only one who noticed the difference around here ...


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Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

dmaradona10 wrote:

Why do you think the turning point was Philly 2009? Just curious.

the fan club ticketing severe fuck up. some 10clubbers were in the rafters. it was a schmoz. the board was a lynch mob for weeks. it was brutal.

ever since then, people are a lot quicker to bitch about all things fan club.

i could not have said it any better ...... but i would add
it all started with those event only tshirts (i think it was the 2009 tour) ... people started paying 100-200 bucks for tshirts FUCKING TSHIRTS!!!! and i will be the first to tell you i spent $130 on the chicago cubs shirt that year .. and when i got it i was so fucking pissed at myself cause i spent it on something that will either get dirty/stained/torn/shirk etc etc .. it was at that moment i said this is getting out of control ...

The funny thing about the hysteria with the event specific shirts is that they had them back on the 1998 tour (the shirt images were the same as the posters), but I guess weren't a big enough deal back then to warrant making them for the 2000 tour.

boyo79

Why do people need to buy two of everything? Play one, keep one sealed. Those keeping them sealed are only doing for reason - the resale value.

I must admit I've caught the bootleg bug this year and must have easily bought 60 of the damn things but thats all I'm getting. Don't care for a backpack or a £40 3 disc dvd. That's just a rip-off in my view. Compare it to the Harry Potter limited edition dvd/bluray boxset that I'm getting the wife for Xmas - something like 19 discs with great packaging and for £70. Each to their own I guess but I've come to the point where I'm not paying over the odds for a PJ product. Look at posters going for $200 the day after a show. Mental. If people show a little patience, they could save themselves a lot of money.

Anyway I'm off the look at a sealed album now....... (I kid, none of my PJ things are sealed!!)

High Fidelity 2000

joe2468 wrote:

i like that we can have an honest chat about this ... AND NOT GET IT LOCKED ....and im also glad im not the only one who noticed the difference around here ...


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Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

dmaradona10 wrote:

Why do you think the turning point was Philly 2009? Just curious.

the fan club ticketing severe fuck up. some 10clubbers were in the rafters. it was a schmoz. the board was a lynch mob for weeks. it was brutal.

ever since then, people are a lot quicker to bitch about all things fan club.

i could not have said it any better ...... but i would add
it all started with those event only tshirts (i think it was the 2009 tour) ... people started paying 100-200 bucks for tshirts FUCKING TSHIRTS!!!! and i will be the first to tell you i spent $130 on the chicago cubs shirt that year .. and when i got it i was so fucking pissed at myself cause i spent it on something that will either get dirty/stained/torn/shirk etc etc .. it was at that moment i said this is getting out of control ...

That is true. In 2008 a friend of mine got to a show and bought me the Reaper shirt. I had him get an L and an XL because I didn't know which size would fit better. I ended up putting the XL on ebay shortly after the concert and someone paid $80-s0mething for it! It was crazy. I never expected to make money like that off that shirt. Then Ten Club sold them a couple months later anyway!

I will add, I don't think the people HERE on the board are the ones paying for crazy stuff on ebay. Not too many of them anyway. Most of us around here know better that if we wait, Ten Club might make more DVDs, or someone here might get rid of theirs... it's the "immediate satisfaction" that people have to have it NOW because it's sold out. Same reason the posters always have record prices immedately after the show, then 6 months later they're half of that (for the most part).

It's like the Vault CD... sure, I admit I was kind of interested in it. But I didn't bid on any. Someone here offered a burned copy of it with a photocopy of the jacket... good enough for me! I was kind of unimpressed with the show anyway... some out of tune bass, Vedder singing rather flat on at least 3 songs... but some people HAVE to have it!

tigers84

Is Gene Simmons running the show now.

boyo79

High Fidelity 2000 wrote:

It's like the Vault CD... sure, I admit I was kind of interested in it. But I didn't bid on any. Someone here offered a burned copy of it with a photocopy of the jacket... good enough for me! I was kind of unimpressed with the show anyway... some out of tune bass, Vedder singing rather flat on at least 3 songs... but some people HAVE to have it!

I can't be doing with Ed's talking between songs on the Vault cd...some of it is cringeworthy! But thats another subject!

ja172732

evman wrote:

crap i see one of the blu ray deluxe is bid up too 619$

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pearl-Jam-PJ20- ... 3715080897

hey,i just sold my wife for $700 to get my filthy hands on the dvd,anyone need kids 'cause i really need a backpack for my collection?

tigers84

just sold my house, baby, wife for a" BOOM: Live in Hawaii" secret show cd/dvd/tanktop super duper very limited deluxe package!!

iamica

Just seems kind of overpriced merch these days, $35 for a T-shirt and $60-$70 for a 3-disk DVD...I know the band and the people who work for them need to make a profit, but I think the cost of most of this stuff is getting out of hand.
And I can't even fathom paying $600 for a DVD. It's a freaking DVD, people!

LeatherMosquitoMan

I'll take a sealed Benaroya for my Deluxe DVD set that should arrive monday

~kidding~

En La Clandestinidad

boyo79 wrote:

High Fidelity 2000 wrote:

It's like the Vault CD... sure, I admit I was kind of interested in it. But I didn't bid on any. Someone here offered a burned copy of it with a photocopy of the jacket... good enough for me! I was kind of unimpressed with the show anyway... some out of tune bass, Vedder singing rather flat on at least 3 songs... but some people HAVE to have it!

I can't be doing with Ed's talking between songs on the Vault cd...some of it is cringeworthy! But thats another subject!

Seriously, I have it on my ipod and never listen to it! People were paying over $100 for it!

tragicheadjam

that's insane, why is that one being bid up so high when there are lower buy it now's?

gotta be some people bidding that will be backing out

evman wrote:

crap i see one of the blu ray deluxe is bid up too 619$

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pearl-Jam-PJ20- ... 3715080897

2-feign-reluctance

Great point Ian.

quote="boyo79"]

2-feign-reluctance wrote:

vanisle09 wrote:

If you don't like the "PJ scene" then why are you on this site. I think about 99.8% of the people on here are happy with it.

You have stats to back this up? I'd say not man. I lurked on this board back when it was known as "the message pit" from 1996-2003 and it was never like this. Joe is right, it's changed and I think it has to do with newer members. Maybe 99.8% of them are "gimme gimme gimme." Part of the a generation of "now" and "instant gratification" kinda kids.

Society as a whole has gone this way. Alot of people want things yesterday now. No-one saves for anything. Kids get handed credit cards at 18 and just spend them. I've read people on here saying their credit card is at 20k now and they ain't bothered, they will still use it to get PJ stuff. I see kids walking around with iphones in their hands wearing designer clothes and designer handbags. We're definitely in the generation of 'now' and its hit the fanclub too. Shame.

I just don't know how people can afford to spend $500 on a dvd or a backpack. Crazy.[/quote]

AfghanTwilight

I remember when that 12-31-92 bootleg was sold out as part of the 10C edition of Avocado. I missed out, but had ordered the website-exclusive version. Then months later they re-release it as part of the same package.

I still don't own that bootleg, which I was led to believe was sold out then became available again with the same thing I purchased.

-.- Glorified GnothingMan -.-

joe2468 wrote:

grown men offering up their wives for a poster

Yeah but come on, give me a break, it was a signed and doodled Emek Foil! :oops:

2-feign-reluctance wrote:

I think it has to do with newer members.

:shifty:

robthepjfan

that ebay listing is now at 660 bucks with one day and 14 hrs left...u seriously have to be kidding??? that thing might go for a thousand books..for a friggin dvd...im sorry i love pearl jam but thats the dumbest thing in the world..if i was a millionaire i wouldnt pay that much for it...wait 5 or 6 months ...theyll be some on ebay for under 100 bucks

joe2468

robthepjfan wrote:

that ebay listing is now at 660 bucks with one day and 14 hrs left...u seriously have to be kidding??? that thing might go for a thousand books..for a friggin dvd...im sorry i love pearl jam but thats the dumbest thing in the world..if i was a millionaire i wouldnt pay that much for it...wait 5 or 6 months ...theyll be some on ebay for under 100 bucks

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