In 2011, LCD Soundsystem broke up in a very grand fashion. Tickets for their farewell concert at Madison Square Garden were hawked for up to $1500 and the documentary "Shut Up and Play the Hits" about that final show, revealed mournful fans crying in the audience over the band's supposed end.
Once frontman James Murphy announced that the band was getting back together this past January, fans were understandably annoyed by the fake-out farewell just 5 years earlier. But those non-grudge-holding diehards who were pumped for this reunion might still be irked by the ticket distribution process for their two shows this Sunday and Monday.
Tickets to the two Webster Hall shows were only available via lottery. BUT WAIT. If you won the lottery, you didn't actually win the tickets. You won THE CHANCE TO MAYBE BUY THEM.
See the screenshot of the ticketing site as of Thursday below.
As of Friday morning, the lottery was closed "due to overwhelming demand."
We couldn't help but feel that trying to win a lottery in which you don't necessarily get the prize even if you actually WIN THE LOTTERY seemed inherently unfair. So we counted up a few things about living in this city that are just as pointless.