Reader Rick Kirkendall writes:

I just read your article in this weeks CityLife on THE KILLERS. Let me tell you why I won’t be buying the new album or any future album by this band. Sure, I wasn’t there in the very beginning when they played at Cafe Nola on Maryland Parkway; but then again, who was?? But when the buzz about them started with the release of HOT FUSS ( I read about it in the British NME, something I read weekly) I immediately bought the new album when it was released in America, and I bought all five Import CD singles at Ten Dollars each just for the B Sides. I also bought SAM’S TOWN, and saw their shows at the Hard Rock (where I thought they got the worse sound mixes ever).

Well, I understand why they spend most of their time overseas where they are worshipped and have money thrown at them hand over fist. But when the announcement came they would be playing at the House of Blues just weeks ago, with ads in the Las Vegas Weekly and the CityLife; my 35 years of concert going experience and skill on Ticketmaster-was logged online at exactly 10 a.m., and ten seconds later I couldn’t even get ONE Ticket. This has NEVER happened to me, ever. I was Shut Out of their concert.

When I found out that their “fan club” got first grabs at tickets, well, fine…But if they wanted to make this a Private show for the “Fans” so be it. But don’t advertise the show in the local papers as if it would be open to everyone. I am not 16, or a “friend” on their MY SPACE page. But I’ve been going to concerts for years, and up to this point bought all their CD’s. When they could have played inside the Mandalay Bay Events Center where Everyone who wanted a ticket could have gotten one, instead they went the Elitist route and it was a case of ‘who you know’ to get inside the House of Blues.

So I’m done with them. I won’t buy the new album and you’ll soon see my CD collection of The Killers in a used bin at ZIA Record Exchange. In a “day and age” (sic) when CD sales are at an all time low, there are far more deserving bands who are worthy of my 12.00 dollar purchase. Apparently the collective egos of Brandon Flowers and Company are believing their own hype and really don’t care much for the locals of Las Vegas other than their ‘fan club’ members.