With the Coachella 2012 lineup announced, people wearing cardigans across America are salivating onto their laptops as they unleash their credit cards on the internet, buying band tee's for those acts their friends stopped listening to when they got their record deal. This year, the festival promises to single-handedly pull the United States out of the financial crisis by generating it's own small nation worth of commercial expenditure. Unfortunately, the majority of festival goers' time will still be spent in line for disgusting portable disease hatcheries, and $11.00 water.
Anybody who knows the festival by name, will surely remember the insanity of last year, when tickets for the festival sold out in 6 days. Personally, it took me a week just to finally get the Coachella main page to load... I never had a chance. Seeing as how I also couldn't swing the 4.9 billion dollar passes for resale on eBay, I wasn't in attendance in 2011.
However, this year the festival has been split into two identical 3 day showings, promising to make more tickets available, and theoretically allowing a much larger attendance. What this really means is that now, extravagant hipsters can be filthy in the desert for 6 days instead of 3, while they pretend that they all came to see the daytime acts, and hide their embarrassment at how their suburban sensibilities are challenged by the day 3 hip-hop finale. (Dre and Snoop!) Official festival dates are April 13-15th, and the 20-22nd.
For anybody who didn't dive on presale tickets late last year, festival passes will go on sale Friday, January 13th starting at $285. Now, check out the lineup, and have fun being distraught over which day you can afford to go to, once you decide you don't really need to eat next month after all.
Check after the break for an easily readable text list too!
