I hope you want a $20 unsealable can of liquid death. Because that’s the only water you’ll be getting. Do you want a $70 T-shirt? It’s the only way to prove you were really here man. How about 10 dollar stickers. Or a vinyl for 50? I got it, you need a tote bag to carry all the crap we’re selling. 60 dollars and if you leave with it you can’t bring it back in.
=O. i didn’t realize he was the same actor. that’s so cool!
Hint: it always was.
Woodstock is nigh-worshipped for being the defining hippy and counterculture event.
Except it was designed and run by corporates who learned how to make fat stacks off of hippies. Modern festivals are the end product of that where it is blatantly about taking as much of your money as they can.
Some always were. Others that were founded by people who actually just wanted to have a great time on a festival turned them into temples of capitalism
I was at the second to last Sasquatch and spent a lot of the time ranting about the people that thought a festival was an ideal place to sell someone a Toyota.
When people say they are ravers and then talk about all the festivals they went to. Yeah no. Raves are barely organized, optionally legal, dirty, and you find out where it is at the last minute.
Ok gatekeeper
It’s not meant to be gatekeeping, I do feel bad for the people who didn’t get to experience it but a similar experience is available for anyone at anytime with some community building and work, DIY is absolutely essential to the raver experience imo. It’s pretty silly that it’s called gatekeeping when people are just recalling the original, pure experience that has since been ruined by greed. Don’t blame me.
Abandoned warehouses, land banked office buildings, closed down factories, old docks. 90s parties were great fun
I miss X Fest…
It is apparently being revived this year tho. Claims it’s getting back to its roots but I have my doubts since all the ads for it are blatantly AI generated slop.
