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Thanks for writing this, Chris. It needed to be said. Many of you who are critical of this opinion can't distinguish between the band and its management and business partners and think everything about Phish needs to be fluffed; you need to get a clue.
By the way, as to you who don't think this opinion should be on Phish.net, this IMO is exactly where it needs to be. Phish.net speaks for the organized fan base on the Internet as it always has going back to 1990. And it's not incidental that the fan charity that runs this site has invested (and continues to invest) thousands of dollars and countless man hours of unpaid volunteer effort working on the code base behind this site to insure that the site doesn't crash when up to 30,000 page requests hit on the servers at the same time during a show, something Nugs and TicketMaster need to figure out how to do as well.
Seeing that $29.95 debit card charge on my online bank statement today makes me mad. If it weren't that it was a Phish business partner, people like me would be on the phone today asking for the charges to be reversed. Some email acknowledgement (and apologies/refund) from Nugs.net/LivePhish today would also have been appropriate but nothing but crickets.