Update 2/13/10
TICKETS HAVE BEEN PURCHASED!
The festival had an interesting ticketing system. Essentially, the earlier you purchased the tickets, the cheaper they would be. Mine cost around $235 for 4-day passes, which at first glance seem outrageous. But the passes for the Baltimore Virgin Festival two years ago cost around $250 altogether, and that was only a two-day festival.
What frustrates me more than anything are the service fees that are tacked on to the price of the tickets: $31 total for service fees, facilities fees, money that goes to government of Manchester, and mailing fees. Maybe a few dollars is okay, but more than $30 is utterly ridiculous. And then after all that nonsense, the website asks you to donate for a greening initiative to help the environment. Do they really thing I'll give to charity after charging $30 bucks for virtually nothing?
But thats another issue. What I have to worry about now is learning how to pitch a tent. Maybe I should have been a Boy Scout.
