The New York City club B.B. King’s is offering a 50% discount on tickets to anyone who’s unemployed during the month of February. The only catch: The jobless have to come up to the club and show proof of their unemployment—i.e. a stub from a benefits check and a photo ID—in order to get the tickets. I guess that’s so the still-employed don’t get to see Blackstreet for $17.50 instead of $35, but what about the client-deprived freelancers out there? At this point, I can’t see how turning anyone away from potentially being a paying customer is a good idea. [Billboard / Pic via wockerjabby]
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@Audif Jackson Winters III:
The whole band?
/Hey, SOMEBODY had to do it.
Guess the joke is in BB King then because most unemployment divisions have gone completely Direct Deposit - eliminating the unemployment check altogether.
@TriedandTrue: ah, really? i haven’t been on the dole in a while, so i did not know that.
Thankfully, I’m not unemployed, but I noticed they’re having a Tommy Emmanuel/Ricky Skaggs double bill in January. Hot damn.
There’s a couple of good-looking shows in February…The Persuasions, Ralph Stanley, Buckwheat Zydeco.
This reminds me of living in the UK, where (at least 10 years ago) certain movie chains gave people a discount if they presented their UB-40 at the box office.