2023-09-05: Chicago, IL

[Bi_3]

if you're a 10C member with tix to the show, at the very least you should be given the opportunity to buy a poster ahead of time. it's not hard.

They did this before, i got a couple of posters this way on the Lightning Bolt tour (I believe?). I don’t know why they stopped.

They could also just print more shirts and posters. Having plenty available before, during, and after the show could be nice.

Yeah, but the wait time is the deterrent. 10cers would pay to guarantee product and casual fans would be more likely to buy if the lines were shorter. It would free up time to consume more beer and food in the venue as well

[CopperTom]

if you're a 10C member with tix to the show, at the very least you should be given the opportunity to buy a poster ahead of time. it's not hard.

They did this before, i got a couple of posters this way on the Lightning Bolt tour (I believe?). I don’t know why they stopped.

They could also just print more shirts and posters. Having plenty available before, during, and after the show could be nice.

Yeah, but the wait time is the deterrent. 10cers would pay to guarantee product and casual fans would be more likely to buy if the lines were shorter. It would free up time to consume more beer and food in the venue as well

The only time they had individual poster preorders was 2009. Lots of complaints because of poster quality. I thought it was great.

[Chris_H_2]

i took a bus to the united center. did you hear what i said? i took a bus to the united center. and then i was promptly turned away at the merch line for the ugly nba poster.

i hate this band so much.

[bodysnatcher]

if you're a 10C member with tix to the show, at the very least you should be given the opportunity to buy a poster ahead of time. it's not hard.

They did this before, i got a couple of posters this way on the Lightning Bolt tour (I believe?). I don’t know why they stopped.

They could also just print more shirts and posters. Having plenty available before, during, and after the show could be nice.

Yeah, but the wait time is the deterrent. 10cers would pay to guarantee product and casual fans would be more likely to buy if the lines were shorter. It would free up time to consume more beer and food in the venue as well

The only time they had individual poster preorders was 2009. Lots of complaints because of poster quality. I thought it was great.

That’s right, the BS tour. Yeah I get that it’s way cheaper and requires much less work to just sell these at stands at the show and making fans deal with it. I’d do it that way too if I ran things. PJ fans have to be the absolutely worst to deal with when it comes to ordering merch, especially posters.

[Bi_3]

i took a bus to the united center. did you hear what i said? i took a bus to the united center. and then i was promptly turned away at the merch line for the ugly nba poster.

i hate this band so much.

Know any good lawyers?

[patrick]

if you're a 10C member with tix to the show, at the very least you should be given the opportunity to buy a poster ahead of time. it's not hard.

They did this before, i got a couple of posters this way on the Lightning Bolt tour (I believe?). I don’t know why they stopped.

Logistics and overhead to do it, I bet. And I agree it's something they could do. I'd even pay a premium for their troubles.

3 of the last 4 shows I've been to, I got the poster off ebay after missing them at the venue, 10c, and artist sales.

[Bi_3]

if you're a 10C member with tix to the show, at the very least you should be given the opportunity to buy a poster ahead of time. it's not hard.

They did this before, i got a couple of posters this way on the Lightning Bolt tour (I believe?). I don’t know why they stopped.

Logistics and overhead to do it, I bet. And I agree it's something they could do. I'd even pay a premium for their troubles.

3 of the last 4 shows I've been to, I got the poster off ebay after missing them at the venue, 10c, and artist sales.

Yeah but all that can be outsourced easily now vs 14 years ago. Post pandy online shopping is a brave new world

[bodysnatcher]

Yeah but Tim Bierman ain’t got the time to figure that out, he’s got calzones to eat

[wease]

i took a bus to the united center. did you hear what i said? i took a bus to the united center. and then i was promptly turned away at the merch line for the ugly nba poster.

i hate this band so much.

Why were you turned away?

[bodysnatcher]

i took a bus to the united center. did you hear what i said? i took a bus to the united center. and then i was promptly turned away at the merch line for the ugly nba poster.

i hate this band so much.

Why were you turned away?

Probably bc he smelled like a bus

[96583UP]

Too muchhhhhh-a magic bus!

[bodysnatcher]

RMer Chris H2O is at the show, please play magic Bus!

[Bi_3]

Let me sleep, it's chrisbus time

[Chris_H_2]

[Chris_H_2]

i took a bus to the united center. did you hear what i said? i took a bus to the united center. and then i was promptly turned away at the merch line for the ugly nba poster.

i hate this band so much.

Why were you turned away?

sorry. should've said they sold out.

[Strat]

I remember the day when Pearl Jam fans were about the music not the merch

The merch lines are fucking insane

[wease]

Reminds of those two boneheads that sat behind us in St Louis last year. They sit down 3 songs from the end and say “at least we didn’t miss all of it.” They’d been in the merch line the entire show.

[Chris_H_2]

I remember the day when Pearl Jam fans were about the music not the merch

The merch lines are fucking insane

it's been like this for the past 20 years

[warehouse]

i couldn't image missing part of a show to buy a t shirt or poster

[Chris_H_2]

i tell you what, as ruddo can attest, i regret not stepping out of the last song of the sigur ros show a couple of weeks ago in boston. that line was at least a 90 minute wait after the show.