What the Hell is This, Chicago 1920?

NME.com just released an article stating that festivals may go dry, that is, without the presence of alcohol, "[a]s part of a crackdown on binge drinking among young people."

This is a fucking travesty of an initiative, if you ask me. I can tell you from personal experience that ever since I turned 21 and started hitting the beer tents, festivals have become a hundred times better than they were before. Despite the high markup on a plastic cup of Heineken, the subsequent amount of joy derived is well worth the price. If not for beer, I don't know I would've been able to last the first five hours of each day at Street Scene 2006. Beer saved my sanity and lent me some cash for some bombass eggrolls.

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So, if you actually read the article and not react over the title like I did, you'll see this is only directed towards British festivals, in which case, I say, "Good." Festivals should be about the music, anyway.