Tickets for Bruce Springsteen's final concerts at Giants Stadium in New Jersey went on sale on Monday, June 8, 2009. Springsteen is scheduled to play five shows at the historic stadium in September and October of 2009 as part of his Working on a Dream tour. Getting Springsteen tickets can be a daunting process - his shows tend to sell out fairly quickly. Securing Springsteen tickets to shows in his home state of New Jersey can be next to impossible.
Demand in other markets can also be very high: on September 25, 2009, tickets for a Springsteen show in Baltimore, Maryland, sold out in 20 minutes.http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/2009/09/bruce_springsteen_tickets_sell.html
Secondary Market
Official tickets for Springsteen shows can be purchased online via Ticketmaster. Not surprisingly, the secondary market for Springsteen tickets is a big one. Websites like StubHub have been known to have hundreds of tickets for each of Springsteen's concerts, often marked up at prices well over face value.
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Fast Facts
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Springsteen has toured frequently since reuniting with the E Street Band in the late 1990s
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Tickets for Springsteen's first three of five scheduled Giants Stadium shows sold out quickly on June 1, 2009
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Giants Stadium 2009 concert dates: September 30, October 2, October 3, October 8 and October 9
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Springsteen is the top selling artist at the Meadowlands; has performed 56 sold out shows there with the E Street Band
