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Coachella 2014 sells out in 3 hours; the Internet mourns
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It's true. Coachella 2014 tickets have already sold out. Thousands of music festival fanatics flocked to its website at 10 a.m. Friday and within just three hours, tickets to both weekends of the annual event were gone.
Coachella draws nearly 200,000 people out to the Coachella Valley for those two weeks every year, according to the Press-Enterprise.
The music festival tweeted this shortly before 1 p.m.:
Not surprisingly, people were pissed. We couldn't help but capture the collective groan we saw on Twitter today.
Were you able to get tickets? Which weekend are you attending? If you weren't able to get any, do you plan on finding some through other means? How far will you go?
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