I don't usually post much but I think this needs to be said and I hope maybe we can all come together as a people to try and stop this from happening. On March 18th many fans were awaken from their sleep by the "MORNING BELL". As most Radioheads fans know, tickets just went on sale and many people if not most were unable to get tickets from the get go. Cheers to those who were "LUCKY". Many people went to authorized dealers or waited in line or  also waited online until tickets went on sale. Unfortuanately, most people where left "HIGH AND DRY" and without tickets due to system errors. Within minutes of tickets going on sale they were sold out and tickets were already on the secondary market for up to 10 times the normal price. Radiohead even went to great lengths to try and stop this from happening due to previous years' problems by limiting 2 tickets per purchase. That is fine for me since "ALL I NEED" is 2 tickets. How is it possible if you have multiple people in different countries and states trying to buy tickets within seconds of going on sale and all getting errors. You sit there watching the little hourglass going round and round like "SPINNING PLATES". To great dismay this happened again and again and again every year. In Beijing a half a mile line or so of  people were left without tickets. How is this possible???"HOW DO YOU" stop it??? In NYC, thousands left without tickets. How is it possible for tickets to sell out in a matter of a few mintues/seconds when multiple days are announced and are being offered with a limit of 2 tickets per purchase? Hackers? Conspiracy??? Maybe these hackers are getting deep into the "CODEX" of the computer systems. Who knows?? Something is up and it has been going on for decades now with no end in site. 2+2 is for sure equaling 5 here. Maybe I am just a "PARANOID ANDROID". What I do know is we have to come together as a people across the world to try and stop this. I have no clue what we can do but maybe others who feel the same who are a lot smarter than me are able to come up with something. I and many others find this extremely disappointing and heartbreaking because we as fans, have been waiting 4-5 years for this day, and to have it stolen from us time and time again is quite a "LET DOWN". Here in America, I understand we built this country on beating others and stepping on the person next to us to get a little higher, but music was suppose to bring people together. Living in this captialistic society, I would think has gotten me use to this, since it is "THE NATIONAL ANTHEM" of the USA, but it hasn't. It all comes down to the "DOLLARS AND CENTS". But this is not an American problem but a world problem. When will it stop and who can help? Batman? Superman? Brainiac?  I don't know if you missed that reference but the point is we need to stop this across the world so we can all enjoy a piece of great art. I hope this reaches many and wish for this to end so we can all enjoy great music from Radiohead and other great muscial artists that we all adore.  I will be "OPTIMISTIC" in this being fixed one day soon. What a "NICE DREAM" that would be for all of us to watch  Jonny Greenwood hit the "RIPCORD" live. If only we can all come together as a society to stop this injustice. It should be easy to take down as a team because when you really think about... It is all just a "HOUSE OF CARDS".  Thank you. 

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