The $40 "Underground" Website

[SoDesuKa]

If you're charging $40 at the gate you're not "underground" anymore. Unless, of course, you're using the term in a sarcastic way.



$40 ticket price to the "underground"

[Supply Side Jesus]

1. Lmao...

very funny

[greyl]

2. It's not 40 at the gate at all. The charge is for premium seats.

Unrec for sensationalistic innacuracy.

[SoDesuKa]

3. Premium Seats

Premium seats? Gotcha!



Free drinks

[Response]

4. Democratic Steerage?

I'm jest making a joke.

[SoDesuKa]

5. No Free Drink For You

This underground scene isn't really all that underground. In many respects it's rather mainstream.

[greyl]

6. Mainstream you say? Kinda like "We are the 99%?"

Please.

[SoDesuKa]

7. Premium Seats Suggests First Class

Underground clubs don't have classes of seating, do they? What other kinds of underground scenes are there - underground music? How does the word "underground" allow for classes?

Just sayin' . . .

[greyl]

8. I won't be chasing your goalposts around, "$40 at the gate".

http://www.ustream.tv/TheOther99 instead.

[Tuvok Obama]

9. It's still below ground, but the $40 gives you...

...a map (the search function), and forces the beggars (advertisers) to leave you alone. Oh, and you're allowed to speak (post) in certain select rooms (forums) where you'd otherwise be required to keep silent.

Overall, I think it's a very fair setup. The premium members (along with the advertisements) will be paying to keep the basic site free for the non-paying members.

[SoDesuKa]

11. A Labored Interpretation of "Underground"

This church has an outreach program so the poor aren't excluded entirely. However, the word "underground" doesn't really apply anymore, you have to stretch it quite a bit to make it fit.

Just sayin' . . .



You will not be turned away . . .

[JI7]

14. in the new DU they said non donors will be allowed to post in the other forums also

which are currently limited to donors only.

[Supply Side Jesus]

10. Some members are just more equal

[TransitJohn]

12. This place hasn't been underground in a while.

:hi:

[SoDesuKa]

13. Renaming Democratic "Underground"

With the new $42 membership fee, it might be a good time to come up with a more descriptive name. It's certainly not an "underground" site if you have to come up with that kind of scratch to join. Unless, of course, the word itself has taken on some idiosyncratic meaning.

[JI7]

15. you don't have to pay anything to join