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A big hearty hello out there to all of you in comment-land. Another week of hard-hitting DCist action is in the book, and you certainly weren’t shy about sharing your opinions on everything from crispy duck to how Maryland’s going to fund a new soccer stadium.

Getting started, it has little to do with Modest Mouse tickets, but I certainly would be interested in seeing empirical data — as run_for_the_hills suggests in this week’s Comment of the Week — concerning Phish fans’ financial elasticity during the current recession:

Sure, but granted lots of Phish fans have jobs, not careers. It’s not like you can’t deliver pizzas or do landscaping somewhere on the other side of town.

Dude, you holding?

Seriously, there’s got to be a local think tank who has this kind of information.

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