I was wondering that myself about the merriweather show.  It still does not even list it on their website or on any of the ticket sites.  Heaven and hell is supposed to play there the night after that too, but again no listing for it on their site.   What are they gonna make people wait till a month before the show before they list it?  What is this ozzfest?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Blockbuster Inc said it has struck a deal to sell tickets for top U.S. concert producer Live Nation, a tie-up that it expects to drive more traffic to its stores and Live Nation hopes will quell consumer ire over rising ticket prices and uneven availability.

The three-year deal, giving retail ticketing privileges and exclusive blocks of tickets to 500 Blockbuster stores starting in January, has been in the works since last spring, Nathan Hubbard, chief executive of Live Nation Ticketing, said on Monday.

Long-brewing complaints of rising service fees and spotty availability of concert tickets came to a head this year when parents protested widespread scalping of tickets to Walt Disney Co's Hannah Montana tour after online tickets sold out seconds after becoming available. Several state attorneys general opened inquiries of ticket sellers.

The Blockbuster deal, kept under wraps while the companies worked out details, came months after Live Nation, which was not connected to Hannah Montana, decided to take over ticketing at the end of its contract with TicketMaster, Hubbard said.

The movie rental chain's store footprint and national presence, its ability to "manage cross-country campaigns in a unified manner," made it the top contender, Hubbard said.

"The fan who buys his ticket offline has a lot of demographic overlap with the consumer who rents his DVD offline," Hubbard said. "On top of that, you've got now in Blockbuster a brand that has almost 100 percent awareness nationwide ... so it's a more efficient marketing opportunity."

Blockbuster believes the deal will strengthen same-store sales, which showed positive growth this year for the first time since 2003, a fact that proved to Live Nation the chain was on the right track.

Blockbuster has folded "relatively minor" costs for selling tickets and cross promoting concerts into its planned capital expenditures under a plan by new Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Keyes -- a former CEO of 7-Eleven Inc -- to reinvent it as a chain of convenience stores for entertainment.

Both companies expect the venture to start slowly and to expand to more stores and a wider array of products, including sales of concert paraphernalia and downloads of digital music and videos from Blockbuster's in-store kiosks.

Blockbuster will add a number of smaller venues, including the House of Blues chain, when their contract with Ticketmaster expires in 2010.

Although it has lagged Netflix Inc for years in the 12.5 million-subscriber U.S. online rental market, Blockbuster sees an average of 60 million customers each year at its 7,500 stores worldwide.

After changing its focus from costly online subscriber acquisition to store sales, the chain posted same-store sales growth of 2.9 percent, 14.2 percent and 5.1 percent in consecutive quarters in 2008 despite a deepening global recession.

"The current reinvention of Blockbuster is all about convenient access to media entertainment," Keyes said. "That gives us a much broader canvas from which to work and we believe ... that the consumer also will allow us a broader relevance."

(Reporting by Gina Keating; Editing by Gary Hill)

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4B119H20081202

I have an extra ticket to the Tuesday, August 19th show in Tinley Park, IL. I am driving from St. Louis at 11am Tues, and driving back after the show. Second Pavillion Seating sec. 204, center. Only asking ticket price and help with gas. Any takers? Message me for more details. 
Ken

I got an email from a flunky at LiveNation. He told me the error about adjacent seats means there are no more promotional tickets left for that show.

You would think the error message would read something like "There are no more promotional tickets left for this show date" or something.

Aside from that, what the hell was that error message about "adjacent seats"??? These are LAWN TICKETS.

God damn those people at LiveNation are a bunch of idiots.

In the CD is a card with a code, redeemable supposedly for a free lawn pass to one of the shows on the Metal Masters tour. It says literally to go to www.livenation.com/judaspriest, enter the code and away you go.

NOT!!

There is no such fucking place to enter the code on that page!

Not only that, the site is set up so that you apparently cannot access some features unless you sign up for an account.

So I signed up for an account last night. After 90 fucking minutes, it still had not sent me a confirmation email allowing me to log in.

So this morning, I checked my email, lo and behold there was the confirmation email.

So I log in, go to the Judas Priest page, and click on the button that says something like "Special Offers".

I get a fucking error message stating that Judas Priest is not playing in my area.

WELL FUCKING DUH! I AM TRYING TO GET A LAWN PASS FOR A SHOW IN ANOTHER FUCKING CITY!!!!!!

WHAT KIND OF BRAIN-DEAD FUCKING RETARD DESIGNED THEIR WEBSITE?

You would think they would have provided a link in the card in the CD package that actually led to a place to enter the code!

But NOoOOoOOooooOOOOooOooOoOooOoOoOo!!!!

Stupid fuckers.

Leave it (once again) to someone to not follow up on the details, and fuck everything up.

IS there actually going to be a web page created where we can enter the code?

Or is this 'promotion' some sort of lie created to try to entice people to buy the cd?