<p>Thank goodness for you all. I was clueless about why there were tents at the subway station. They were at the Best Buy, of course!</p>
<p>^ Isn’t it amazing as to what you learn about on cc!</p>
<p>^^^Sure is! I tell my kids about something and they ask “where did you hear about that?”. Invariably it is on CC.</p>
<p>warblers~at least you don’t have to pay for the student tickets (wristbands) at Duke (although I tell S1 it’s MY Duke $ at work!). I heard on the news in our area that people are tenting for the PS–and we’re supposed to get 1-3 inches of rain tomorrow!</p>
<p>My son tried to go to Carolina basketball game Sat. after the dismal football game. Thought he could buy scalped tickets. The tickets (face value $10) were being scalped for $140! He didn’t go to game.</p>
<p>I am basking here in the glow of not having any idea which piece of unobtainable electronics the ute are obsessing over this week.</p>
<p>Surprisingly, neither of my sons is talking about it either.</p>
<p>I’d pay $500 for a videogame system if it were actually a good one. The ps3 so far though seems to be a very poorly designed system with few few quality software titles available.</p>
<p>The better question is, why the hell isnt your son selling his ps3 on ebay? He could fetch upwards of $1400, and then buy a ps3 off the shelf for that same $500 just a few months later. Or better yet, sell it, and the buy an xbox 360 for $400.</p>
<p>My close friend last year made around one and a half thousand dollars when the xbox 360s came out, by buying as many as he could. He sold them on ebay for crazy money, and also some to people he knew.</p>
<p>Wow. We just don’t do playstations. The kids (youngest is now a freshman in HS) always played free downloadable games on the computers, and DH invested in SimCity & other “educational” games cause he played them too 
, but playstation–no. They even figured out how to make DDR (Dance Revolution) work on the Linux system so all we had to buy was the floor pad.</p>
<p>The kids were happy to play when they went to a friend’s or cousin’s house, however. That was their idea of a vacation.</p>
<p>I slept on a sidewalk outside a music store once to buy Bruce Springsteen tickets. Does that count?</p>
<p>well BHG…you may want to go slip your son an extra $100 for the better ($599 ) system. As of right now its going for $2300 on ebay.He will probably quadruple his money. So maybe he will give you a cut :)</p>
<p>There are only 400,000 systems in all of North America being sold tonight and will be less than a million by years end.</p>
<p>You should be proud of the enterprising young man!</p>
<p>Alumother, I slept on a sidewalk outside of a music store and outside of an arena for Springsteen tickets!</p>
<p>Alumother & garland: Yes, it counts. And it was a good use of your time.</p>
<p>garland: I happen to agree with Mulshine that Bruce’s old stuff was great. The new stuff doesn;t do it for me.</p>
<p>I stood in a line to buy a “Furby” when that’s all the believing child wanted Santa to bring. The line formed outside the mall which was fine and controlled but when they opened the mall doors it was a frightening mad rush to the actual toy store. I was 7th in line but about #100 at the store. I was ill prepared for that insanity. I truely thought everyone would keep in line and walk to the store. Oh…naive,naive me. I guess now they hand out #'s. Pretty frightening…but worth it xmas am</p>
<p>Well, that’s fair. I adore the new stuff, but I’ve always been a fan of Americana and folk music, as has Bruce (rock has always been just a part of who he is–remember when he was touted as the new Dylan?)</p>
<p>Plus, anyone who thinks that “Cheeseburger in Paradise” is the epitome of what music should be has fairly, um, limited taste, so to speak.</p>
<p>“I slept on a sidewalk outside a music store once to buy Bruce Springsteen tickets. Does that count?”</p>
<p>Yes</p>
<p>garland: Maybe living at the Jersey shore has caused Mulshine to be too wrapped up in beach-party-drinking music. I like Jimmy Buffet, but he does have a rather limited range of topics and innovation in his music.</p>
<p>At the last Bruce concert I attended, I found myself yelling “Shut up and sing!” And that was before I read Ingraham’s book. I never slept outside to get Bruce tickets, but I did head to the Stone Pony on occasion when we heard rumors that he was in town & might stop in. Never caught him.</p>
<p>I saw incredible pictures on TV last night of the tent cities being set up all over NYC. Three sons, not one of these play station/X-box things has ever been purchased. I think they just “knew” it was never gonna happen in this house. A little Sims, yes. I, more than once, lined up in the middle of the night to get tickets for baseball playoff and World Series games. I was quite late to work one day while doing one of these “waits,” so I called into the office and said I was “out in the field.” Or maybe it was the stadium. I can’t remember. ;)</p>
<p>SS–Bruce has always been a talker. I can’t imagine why someone would go to one of his concerts if they expected “shut up and sing”. I don’t think I’d ever go to a concert of someone I felt that much contempt for.</p>
<p>I slept overnight on the sidewalk along Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena on New Year’s Eve the first year we lived in CA so we’d have a place along the Rose Parade route. Just because I could. It was a family tradition in my childhood home in NJ to watch the Rose Parade every New Year’s Day, and it never occurred to me in my wildest dreams that I would ever see it in person. Never, ever, ever.</p>
<p>So yeah, that’s not quite the same thing, but it was still nutty. :)</p>