LCD Soundsystem vs. scalpers Round 2: Four more farewell shows added
After this morning's kerfuffle, brouhaha, hullabaloo, what-have-you over the instantaneous unavailability of tickets to LCD Soundsystem's farewell show at Madison Square Garden, James Murphy has responded by announcing four more shows at New York's Terminal 5 taking place March 28, 29, 30, and 31. Murphy says the additional performances will include "most if not all" of the same songs planned for the grand finale, and—although they're being sold through Ticketmaster again—he promises to "look seriously at the way they sell these tickets" this time to avoid something similar happening, including enforcing a strict two-ticket limit per customer. Naturally, Murphy also took the opportunity to once more lash out at the opportunists, saying in part:
"we tried calling our lawyer about the ticket scalping. “It’s legal”. no joke. it’s fucking legal. i tramped around with friends and band getting insane. i wanted to buy some expensive tickets and then track the seller down to beat him. i acted stupid. i did some classic, shakespearean vain “fist shaking”, etc. i made angry tweets. (i’m wondering now what on earth could be less effective and more of a first-world spoiled idiotic move than “angry tweets”? jesus.)
i read conspiracy theories about how this was some cash-grab i orchestrated. i read that there are 50,000 seats at msg (i think our show will have 13k). i read that people had already bought flights, hotels. wanted to bring their kids. waited in the cold. i read that some people thought this was one of the reasons we were calling it quits (check). i read that this was a media stunt we planned. i read very funny comments from my friend aziz, one of which was taken seriously (that msg had given me 30,000 tickets personally for guest list). i read that i was giving all the tickets to my “new celebrity friends” (aziz is about the closest thing i have to a “celebrity friend”, and we met at terminal 5 watching hot chip when we were, well, not very “celebrated”). i read that we should cancel the show and put the tickets up on sale in a better fashion. i read that we should not do that, for fuck’s sake. i read that we should go fuck ourselves.
i read a lot of stuff, waiting to hear if we could get another night at msg, which seemed like the only option. but it failed. then i kind of sat in my house, trying not to worry for 20 minutes, and made a very, very good coffee.