Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will now play a total of five shows at Giants Stadium this fall.
Tickets for what were supposed to be the facility's final three concerts -- on Sept. 30, Oct. 2 and Oct. 3 -- sold out in mere hours Monday, so the band agreed today to add two more concerts the following week.
The Boss and his band will play on Thursday, Oct. 8, and Friday, Oct. 9. Tickets for those shows go on sale Monday at noon ET.
Overwhelming fan demand and allegations of "spec selling," where ticket brokers advertise ticket sales before they have them in hand, has stirred controversy over Springsteen tickets in recent months.
Sen. Charles Schumer said Monday that he plans to introduce legislation that will impose a two-day waiting period from when tickets go on sale via an authorized outlet before a reseller can buy those tickets to put on the secondary market.
And just last week, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced she was suing three of those resellers -- Orbitz Worldwide, Ticketnetwork and Select-A-Ticket -- for spec selling.
In a cover story now on newsstands, Q Magazine called a Springsteen concert "the greatest show on earth."
Giants Stadium is scheduled to be demolished next year to make room for a new $1.6 billion facility that both the Giants and Jets will share.
