Lollapalooza Decides It Isn’t Overcrowed Enough, Adds 60,000 Extra Tickets

The Chicago Tribune reports that the Chicago-based three-day music festival Lollapalooza will be expanding their ticket sales by 20,000 per day, meaning that the already-congested Grant Park festival will have an extra 60,000 music fans sardine-canned onto the Lolla fields when the fest kicks off on August 6^th.

As anyone who went to this year’s massively overcrowded Coachella knows, though, the more nigh-impenetrable walls of bodies that preclude any chance of you moving at all while listening to music, walking from stage to stage, or trying to find a bathroom is all part of the festival experience, right?  Right?

Lollapalooza has sold out each of their 225,000 tickets for the past two years, and the addition of an extra 60,000 people on top of that… eh, let’s just say that it doesn’t exactly make wading through a sea of people to see the headlining Axis of Evil any more appealing.

Tribune reports Greg Kot speculates on the expansion:

“The layout of the festival will change this year as a result of the expansion, with a couple of stages moving across Columbus Drive and portable toilets relocated to a more central spot, so it’s possible that the grounds could become more navigable. But in general, the more-is-better trend is not a good thing for music fans. The park district stands to add hundreds of thousands of more dollars to its coffers, however, so it has a financial interest in seeing the festival expand. Last year, Lollapalooza promoters C3 Presents funneled about $1.9 million to the Parkways Foundation.”

What do you think of the ticket expansion—is more necessarily a good thing?