The Arcade Fire is playing 5 shows from Feb 13th through 17th at Judson Memorial Church in New York.

Tickets went onsale today at 9am. Fred told me about the ticket sale at 9:02am. I was on tickets.com (the exclusive vendor of tickets for all 5 shows) by 9:04am, but I was unable to access any tickets because they were all locked up in processing. All 5 shows were reported as sold out by 9:05am.

The first ebay listing for reselling the tickets was listed at 8pm yesterday, which is 13 hours before the tickets went on sale. So, the ebay seller was selling tickets he didn’t even own yet (and possibly still does not own). The winning bid was $2,025 for a set of two tickets, which was 35x face value (face value was $29).

Ridiculous!