Virgin of a Down

When referring to Virgin I mean the record store, and I am more than just disappointed in them. Around three days ago System of a Down announced a "Secret Show" I guess you would call it. The only people who knew were people who belonged to a part of their fan club, which I am a part of. I got the email and became so overjoyed that they are selling tickets at Virgin Record Store in New York for just two dollars. My friends and I had came up with the plan that we would get up at seven and head straight over to Virgin. We get there and are shocked of the amount of people that camped out overnight, and the line wraps around the building. We have anywhere from two hundred to three hundred people in front of us and from what I have heard the venue in which System is playing at holds around two thousand people. The venue being Webster Hall which I have never been to. So we get there at around eight in the morning and the doors open at twelve to sell tickets. At this point we are unsure if we are going to get tickets or not but we figure that considering the amount this venue holds we should be fairly safe. After freezing in the cold (I believe the temperature was in the high 30's) for around three hours the doors FINALLY open. I was so excited, and around five minutes after the line began to move people were walking back saying, "It's sold Out!" I figured that they were joking because the line had barely moved. The closer we got the more the outrage we heard from fans who did not get tickets. Finally the moment that made me realize there are no tickets left is when a girl who had been there since the night before did not get tickets and she was yelling to the crowd in violent anger. At this point I had to face reality, I woke up extremely early for nothing. Now what disgusts me about what Virgin had did was not the amount of tickets they had because I am sure that is not their fault, they were only allocated a certain amount. The problem is that if you see a line of a thousand people I believe that someone should go out there to tell them that odds are they won't be receiving tickets. I heard that they only had 150 or so tickets so and yet they had a line of one thousand people! The least they could have done is had a guy come out to announce the amount of tickets they had and let people know that they probably were not going to get tickets. Instead of freezing at seven in the morning I could have been sitting down in a warm restaurant getting something to eat! I am sure the reason they didn't tell is so they could just have people come into their store but for their despair people had trashed the place by knocking over CD's in anger and kicking them around. In the end they had to close down the store to maintain some order, so hopefully they lost some revenue! Another issue I have is the fact that I had heard that people cut the line once the doors had opened. Security should have been more prepared for a large group of fans and should have maintained order! Either way I was not getting tickets but I despise those who had cut the line, in no way do they deserve tickets when people had slept over and did not receive them. So all I have to say to Virgin is stop overcharging people for CD's because when you charge $18 a CD no wonder why people are stealing music! And another thing is learn how to hire good security, and have some humanity!