I just made my first transaction on Live Nation, which is trying to merge with ticket sales overlord TicketMaster (CEO: Money grubbing Guns N’ Roses, Van Halen, Steely Dan and NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK manager Irving Azoff). Remember like a year or so ago when you would go to buy a ticket it would sometimes bring you to the old school order and if it was a pre-sale you would go to LiveNation? Fucking stupid, now they’ll be the same company. Anyway, I just bought a pair of tickets to see Protest the Hero (rawk!) in May. I have to say the Live Nation site was pretty intuitive. When I searched for the tickets I was able to easily find them and, much to my surprise, they were only sixteen bucks! That fuckin’ rules – I would have shelled out 25 if I was asked to do so. What follows is a harrowing tale of trivial amounts of money, deciet and a broken (and just fucking broke) young man.

Bag of shit.

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I realize there are a few flaws in this post. First, no one cares about my opinion on the subject. Second, it should have been written in 1994. In any event, this is what you get today.

I just got into Biggie recently (totally excellent coincidence with the movie release). I downloaded the discog and I actually really love most of it. I always thought I disliked him for some reason, but I guess I don’t. Tupac’s music, on the other hand, I hate with a burning passion. I find Notorious B.I.G. to be, for the most part, clever and really fun to listen to, which is exactly what I want from hip hop. However, there is a glaring defect in almost every song: Sean Combs.

You can probably put any hip hop artist on the left and this would hold true.

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