Imagine Jerry descending from Heaven & learning that weed was legal & Dead tickets cost $15K. http://t.co/LH7U4Xb4iA pic.twitter.com/PrPFYh4mJd
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) February 28, 2015
From the Mashable article:
… When the surviving members of the band announced the shows last month, Deadheads were cheered to hear that the old-fashioned mail-order system was back, too: Byzantine instructions, meant to separate ‘heads from scalpers with No. 10 envelopes and index cards and postal money orders, were supposedly designed to gave fans a reasonable shot at a face-value ticket…
What many didn’t know was that Chicago Bears season-ticket holders, as part of their contract with the team and Soldier Field, had first dibs on seats — meaning thousands of well-to-do Chicagoans had the option of either seeing the historic shows for face value, or turning their hundreds of dollars into several thousands of dollars…
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Apart from the grinding, indignity-rich triumph of capitalism, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the weekend?