You guys know what? I’m afraid I’m getting addicted after such a short time here.
I’d would also like to ask how it is with the membership fee of 10 
that I expected to pay after I chose the option ‘Join for 10 dollars’. Finally I paid nothing and was sent directly here.
Newbie syndrome, the next symptom is an ungodly amount of daily posts.
I can’t remember what it was that you got with the $10, but I don’t think there was any merch.
If I’m not wrong, with 10$ you don’t have any merch…it’s just the online lpu membership payment…
If they didn’t charge you, then no matter, you can have a free account here 
The $10 fee is for if you enter a contest for m&g or something like that mostly now
If I only had known of LPU let’s say 10 years ago, I would have even paid twice as much or more. Lucky you guys who had opportunity to LP alive on stage or to meet & greet them.
You asked, for me, no short answer.
I got “minutes to midnight” from a friend in 2007. And loved it instantly. Listened to it non stop. It hit my mark. I had the CD always in the car and later on the phone or USB. I was completely satisfied and also told people Linkin Park was one of my favourites.
But I never looked up more, or even the band.
For one, I seldom did that, cause Music just came to me through other people.
Two, I often experienced, that I don’t like more of a band. It always sounded similar but not as great as the loved one.
Life went on, I listened to other stuff, my English got better, so I started to listen to lyrics, liked music for there lyrics.
In Germany it is common to listen to english music without understanding the lyrics.
Chester died, one more fames beloved one in an really sad row, I already lost two of my most important actors Alan Rickman and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
I started to listen to music an YouTube and got bored and annoyed. YouTube always propose the same music on you, if you don’t get active on your own. So I did. I looked up, what musicians did, that I listened for years. And there comes Linkin Park!
Finally!
And it hit me like a hammer.
THAT IT IS!!!
So many albums I missed.
And I love them all!
Really all!
How?
How could I have missed this for so long!
On the other hand, imagine you could listen to it now the first time!
I love the diversity, I love the art, I love the inspiration, I love the stylistic incongruity, I love the mash up with JayZ, I just love it all!
And Mike, Chaster (R.I.P.), Brad, Joe, Rob, Dave what amazing, passionate, kind, creative people!
And last, but very, very important, but on the other side, very personal the lyrics.
I listened to “minutes to midnight” as my most helping album without knowing, that the lyrics had the same theme as the music, would’ve hit home.
I’m the same age than Chester and know the fight against my inner demons.
But I stop there now.
It’s not just the Chester pain lyrics, it’s them all, the political, or the ones Mike wrote to his kids. I’m just so amazed that this American big city rockstars hit home with a German, country loving, struggling as part time single mom and working on sheep farms, passion for writing woman.
Just grateful!
So I am here, to show my unconditional support.
What ever they do in the future, I always be there and listen.
So happy to have tickets for Mike in March.
Thank you guys for reading.
Only the best for you!
Hello to my namesake.
Welcome to the LPU 
Thank You Anna.
Also for starting this topic.
Hi guys,
you are great!
Thank you for your welcome!
You have come in a good time. Welcome buddy.
I’ve been a fan for twelve years, but being a European - where LP often came for festivals rather than solo tours (or at least the festival-appearances were the ones I heard about most from others; I know they toured everywhere as a band) - and autistic - meaning that, especially as a teen, big crowds and partying weren’t my thing - I never ended up seeing a concert. Due to this lack of ‘live’ involvement I never joined the LPU, although I’m pretty sure I did consider it at times.
I also had a period of time which started somewhere after Hunting Party’s release where I wasn’t as involved with the band. (Not because of that album, mind you! I listened to it super actively after its release.) I didn’t even listen to most of the songs on One More Light until a year after Chester’s passing. (Though I should say that the songs I did listen to I really loved and listened to actively; I just wasn’t quite involved with the band as a whole to the extent that I felt the urge to hear the entire album as soon as I could. And also, Chester’s passing made it so much more difficult to listen to the rest, as I knew it’d be the last new songs I’d ever hear with him on them.)
I did follow Mike fairly actively right as he started his solo career, so as soon as I found out he was coming to Europe I bought tickets on the day sales opened. But then about three weeks later, around mid-December, I decided at work to play all LP albums in order, on one day. That day changed me; I completely re-discovered the band, and ever since LP is 99% of what I listen to. On new year’s day I re-watched their Milton Keynes concert while I was on a long bus journey. It was really emotional, as I played the DVD of that concert literally daily for a good period of time as a teen, but then hadn’t watched it in years. That day I made the decision that I was gonna have their logo tattoo’d on me (which I did, three weeks into this year).
I thought about the LPU a few times in the past few months but I didn’t realise that Mike’s fan-stuff went through here as well. When I saw on Mike’s Facebook that sign-ups were open for a meet and greet, I immediately, and finally, went here and bought a membership. So Mike’s M&G was a catalyst that made that happen, but it’s not as if I did it only to gain access to that; as I said I wasn’t really sure if LPU was still active in general.
Not having seen LP live at any point when I definitely had opportunities to is something that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to forgive myself for. 20 June 2017 will forever be engraved on my mind as the day that they were in Amsterdam with Chester for the last time, and I was off doing whatever worthless thing I was doing when I really should have been there. I can only try to be happy that I’m here now and hope that seeing Mike live will help me heal a little.
Hi @evowarrior5
from newbie to newbie, welcome!
Let the past be, it will never change.
Some say, the same goes for the future.
But what the hack do I know.
Just, as long as I am been here, it is a great place!
And thanks for sharing your story!
