Fans Respond To Soundwave Sell Outs

As you've probably heard by now, Soundwave's Melbourne and Brisbane shows sold out within an hour of opening up online at 9am and Sydney followed suit later in the afternoon.

Many metalheads, rockers and hardcore kids had already had already stumped up for the lineup, which includes Metallica, Blink 182, Linkin Park, Slayer, Paramore, The Offpring, Garbage and Cypress Hill during presale. Those unfortunate souls who tried their luck this morning online and were beaten out by the massive demand for such a big lineup have taken their rage to the internets. So as the scalping begins and the fingers are pointed, here's some of the best.

Anger about missing out even stemmed to some very serious violent threats on the festival's Facebook page, which we won't publish here, that the Queensland Police Service have assured will be looked into.

Soundwave boss AJ Maddah (@iamnotshouting) announced this afternoon that the first scalper had been identified and caught.

Just busted 1st scumbag scalper. Your 32 Melbourne tickets are being refunded. #SW13

— AJ (@iamnotshouting) August 23, 2012

Some helpful words from @blink182:

@soundwavefest This girl is bummed out that she did not get tix to the sold out Melbourne & Brisbane shows. twitter.com/blink182/statu…

— blink182 (@blink182) August 23, 2012

@LaMonsterEmpire was so frustrated that she temporarily lost proper function of her fingers. Or the ability to spell. Not sure which one; possibly both:

I AM SO FUCKING UPSET RIGH TNOW

— Jess Cameron ⚓ (@LaMonsterEmpire) August 22, 2012

I'M GOING TO jUST IDK JUST OMG SOBBING

— Jess Cameron ⚓ (@LaMonsterEmpire) August 22, 2012

@pierceddollie went through stages of grief, denial before finally reaching a kind of acceptance:

Having a breakdown from not being able to go to sound wave. #I'mnotokay #soundwave

— piercingfetish⚓ (@pierceddollie) August 22, 2012

#idontwanttoliveonthisplanetanymore

— piercingfetish⚓ (@pierceddollie) August 22, 2012

IM OKAY IM OKAY FUCK FUCK FUCK

— piercingfetish⚓ (@pierceddollie) August 22, 2012

@rhiannmatt clearly struggled with the online ticketing system:

Ermagerrrrd I'm so confused. Did I just purchase 4 #soundwave tickets by accident? Or none? ARGH #SW13

— Rhiann Mattinson (@rhiannmatt) August 22, 2012

@BeckyADodd let us know about those dirty scalper tricks:

@themusiccomau @soundwavefest And Ebay f**kers are already selling them for $500 a ticket!! Lucky i got mine pre sale but WTF!!

— Becky Dodd (@BeckyADodd) August 22, 2012

@xSmartAlec provided jilted punters with some helpful protips about booking online:

People complaining about entering the Captcha wrong, then the page deleting all the info. Maybe don't be retarded and enter it right? #sw13

— Alec (@xSmartAlec) August 22, 2012

 @_Maddyanne wants us to please burry her with it:

If I die whist driving in this weather, fair the well, I love you all. Burry me with my soundwave ticket ❤

— Madeleine (@_Maddyanne) August 23, 2012