Well that was fast. Tickets for The Rolling Stones' hotly anticipated, Summerfest-launching tour stop in Milwaukee sold out in less than 10 minutes, multiple media outlets are reporting. That's not a surprise, given their relative scarcity: The 23,000 seat Marcus Amphitheater is by far the smallest stop on the band's tour, which is skipping Chicago and widely believed to be one of the band's last. The Journal Sentinel's Piet Levy has an account of some of the disappointed Stones fans who failed to secure the tickets they waited in line for.
Here's where the fleecing begins. It will surprise absolutely nobody to learn that a good chunk of the people who scored tickets to the show were scalpers. As of this afternoon, nearly 4,000 seats are already available to the show through Stubhub, and at a heavy markup. A shitty, general admission lawn seat starts at $174, and some bleacher seats are listed at as much as $10,000.
If you're still set on going to the show, no matter the price, but don't want to support scalpers, a very limited number of "Platinum" (read: expensive) tickets are still available for between $880 and $3,173 through Ticketmaster. In other words, pick your poison.
