IG

I have seen the Indigo Girls in concert a cool 9 times since age 15. For awhile, I was steady at once a year, but both being abroad and being a mom have kept me from some shows.

This summer the IG are playing at the Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater. I found this out in April and marked my calendar for the date tickets went on sale. They will be at the Amphitheater just 2 days after my 30th birthday and what a lovely way to start off a new fiscal year.

This is where the sabotage begins. The tickets were supposed to be on sale starting 10am on May 4th. When I checked on May 2 in the early afternoon just to be absolutely sure, the date had changed! Yes, it changed; I did not misread. Tickets were already on sale and I tried to get to Ticketmaster to order mine. Addie tried too. She even called Ticketmaster. No tickets. All sold out.

Seriously. Weak.

There are tickets available on stubhub but are prices at 2-3x the face value of tickets. I think my mom would call that highway robbery. And just because I'm almost 30 doesn't mean I have become any less of a tightwad.

I was a proponent of repealing the anti-scalping law in Minnesota. This was effected in 2007 (or 2008), I think, and I agreed with it. I suppose I still do. If I agree with a law (or lack of law), I need to maintain that position even if it negatively impacts me. Trying to not be a hypocrite is so boring sometimes.

And even though I can't curse the scalping process, curses on those people that bought up all the Indigo Girls tickets leaving none for a soon to be Dirty Thirty girl. Amy and Emily would not approve.