mhester, thanks for chiming in with a well-thought, thorough, and balanced counter-argument to the OP.

Unfortunately, you pretty much wreck the whole affair by subscribing to the "if you don't love Phish unconditionally then stop seeing Phish" meme.

It sucks. It really does. It's a pedantic thing to say. The people you're addressing have invested so many dollars and way more hours in the band it would make your head spin, and they are grown ups capable of making their own choices. For many of these people the choice is not whether to see Phish, but whether to see 10 shows or 8.

It's like one person wrote that sentence, and another person wrote the rest of the post.