They knew the ticket price before they got there. A much closer parallel is the 1992 rebellion in Los Angeles. It s one thing to be in a disaster area, like the first Woodstock back in 69, where facilities are overstrained or nonexistent.
People instinctively pull together.
But the crisis at this year s Woodstock was completely artificial. There was plenty to go around. Under those circumstances, people do react with fury. That s what the looting and trashing, especially the smashing and theft of the festival s ATMs, was all about. People went to Woodstock to get away from it all, especially from the tension of grasping for dollars that runs the real world.