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Here’s another contest for you faithful readers (emphasis on the faithful, now). Cornerstone is constantly hooking us up and this time they’re topping themselves by giving us a $50 Threadless Gift Card along with a Lollapalooza “Animals with Eyepatches” t-shirt. Read along to find out how to win:
How To Win:
1. I wasn’t kidding when I said faithful, people. I let it slide for the Coldplay and Radiohead vinyl contests, but from now on, if you’re going to enter into one of Pretty Much Amazing’s contests, you have to a FR (faithful reader). Generally, to keep track of PMA’s FRs, I have this handy little list of email addresses of all of the email subscribers out there. Subcribe to our FREE email list to receive daily emails keeping you up to date on every single post made that day. Also, once you subscribe you’re email address is now eligible to win any of the contests here at PMA! Make sure you’re subscribed — click here! [What it means to subscribe]
2. Once you know you’re subscribed and ready to go, leave a comment with your name and email address (in the provided fields) and tell me about your Lollapalooza experience. If you didn’t go, tell me why not.
Contest Ends — Tuesday, October 7th.
I didn’t go because I’m poor
I didn’t go to Lollapalooza because I’m a college student and I’m extremely broke. Also I live in Long Island so I had no way of getting there. I’m an avid Threadless buyer though – 17 of the 24 tshirts I own are from that site. Plus 2 sweatshirts. So that giftcard would really help me in the poor department.
I’m poor and live too far away.
Why subscribe? I check PMA at least a couple times daily. It would be redundant.
Lolla was awesome. My first time seeing my favorite band, Radiohead, and some other great shows.
But the best was at the airport after the show was over. While checking in for my flight home I meet bloc party, and later Saul Williams. I also had a discussion with John Norris from mtv. It was the most surreal airport experience ever, it didn’t even bother me that my flight was delayed almost 10 hours.
I have been subscribed through Google Reader for a bit now, so hopefully that is sufficient.
Lolla ‘08 was amazing. It was my first and I saw just about everyone I wanted to see (sans Gnarls and Mark Ronson). Highlights had to be CSS’s schizophrenic dance moves, Girl Talks afternoon party, Ting Ting getting rowdy with the drums and Chromeo’s hilariously danceable set. All the t-shirts I wanted were sold out, so…..
My full experience in detail is here: boutthatjl.blogspot.com.
I didn’t get to go this year. So sad. I had to shoot a movie for school!
I unfortunately could not attend this year because the person I met to get tickets from was shady as all hell. Hopefully next year I’ll remember to get my tickets a head of time.
I needed to go to Lollapalooza because of Cat Power, Santogold, and Wilco, but I didn’t. Long story short, I was planning on going with a friend, they bailed, I didn’t have a place to stay, and I went to a film festival instead. Hmmm. I should have gone to Lollapalooza alone.
Not enough money this year — college does drain the money supply. But next year! It is in the stars.
I didn’t go to Lolla because I live on the wrong side of the planet… Sometimes it gets a bit lonely to live across the globe from where all the fun is going on, but then again you can’t have it all right? I would have loved to go though, Lollapalooza is truly a remarkable and wonderful thing!
Lollapalooza was amazing, i watched one my favorite bands even, Radiohead, they did a kick-ass job, I plan on going next year!
I didn’t go cause i couldn’t afford it, but a few years ago I worked in the parking lot at the venue Lolla came to in Houston and I got to meet former Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri when he was drunk and trying to hook up with some chick and asked us to get him a cab to a local hotel. So I radioed in for a cab. I also met local DJ Outlaw Dave, who referred to himself as “Outlaw Dave” and not just Dave….he looked and sounded as badass and intimidating as his name implies.
I’m also subscribed through google reader — good enough?
Didn’t go to Lollapalooza. I really wanted to go to Austin City Limits last weekend, but predictably, paying off my school loans took precedence. Damn.
I was going to go with my boyfriend one year, but then he broke up with me and skipped town. A few months later, he emailed me to ask for a ride up to Chicago (six hours). By then, I was so pissed off that I didn’t even want to go anymore. I regretted it though so the next year I was going to go on an empowered solo trip, but couldn’t afford it. Someday! Savin up my pennies.
Since January I’ve been subscribed to PMA through Google Reader but a couple minutes ago I officially subscribed just in case. I didn’t go to Lollapalooza because I’m a brokeass college student !
I’ve been subscribed through Google Reader for a while but officially subscribed now.
Didn’t go ’cause I was a whole ocean away, and I’d have been about 2000 miles away if I was at home anyway. ;_;
I went to Lollapalooza and it was amazing, but not quite as amazing as the 2007 festival (daft punk, muse) last year. My highlights were definitely Saul Williams, meeting Lupe Fiasco (my hero), and Spank Rock or The Cool Kids.
I didn’t have the money this year, but planning for next year.
I didn’t go to Lolla because I went to pitchfork instead.
I may have seen fewer bands, but I also paid less money. Plus, Animal Collective….
I didn’t get to go to Lollapalooza because I’m spending all my money on film school. I did watch it online at AT&T and it was almost as if I were there. I almost felt like the sweat was hitting my face from watching the different bands and rocking out to DJ Momjeans.
wow, I thought I was special, being a broke college student not living in the Chicago area. apparently, that’s a trend with the music blogging community. I’ve always wanted to go to Lollapalooza…
just for the record, you are in my RSS feed. I am a faithful reader, I swear.
I really want this: http://www.threadless.com/product/548/Shakespeare_Hates_Your_Emo_Poems
I’m totally different than all these other subscribers…
I’m a broke..college student…from TORONTO!
Just so ya know…I AM a faithful reader. =] I just now realized that I always leave my yahoo e-mail instead of the one I subscribe with.
I didn’t go because I don’t remember ever hearing about him/her/them/it. If you mentioned him/her/them/it in a/some blog post(s) –is that getting annoying yet? lol–, I probably ignored it because I pick and choose what I check out on your site.
Yay for contests!
I didn’t get to go but my friend let me know how amazingly lame I was for missing it by sending me constant texts throughout the day about allllll the amazing bands I didn’t get to see live. It was fun! I think a side effect was that it made me write really poorly constructed run on sentences. Sad