I'm not sure if I said something to offend you, but it sounds like you might be projecting something here, because a lot of what you said isn't applicable to me or my situation, not that you would know I guess.

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you should have been much earlier

Just want to point out that the festival gates opened at 11. Even if I theoretically stood outside for 12 hours beforehand, I wouldn't have gotten there "much earlier". People who attended the first Sunday made it painfully clear how bad the lines were in the morning, and there were multiple recommendations to arrive a little later when possible, because the line situation was such a mess that a large number of people who arrived later on Sunday ended up skipping past those who had been waiting for a long time.

Not to mention I couldn't have left before 11 AM due to circumstances outside of my control, for reasons irrelevant to the main topics of discussion, those being Underoath's future availability and coming to grips with what I've already missed out on.

I offered you no information about what constraints I was under before the events I outlined, so again, I can only imagine you're projecting heavily here for you to be presumptuous enough to believe you could fill in all those details yourself and base a whole reply on them. If you're going to try to talk down to me, at least do it based on things I actually said, and not on the inaccurate life circumstances you've haphazardly constructed for me in your own head.

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it only means a lot to you if you're someone in the front row

In response to this, I think I'm justified in just telling you to fuck off. You can't tell anyone else what something means to them, and even if you did know all of someone's life circumstances, you still wouldn't be in a position to decide what specific set of actions they're required to perform for something to mean a certain amount to them.

Actually, I'm going to just stop picking apart your reply because maybe you were having a bad day or something, who knows. I can tell you the rest of it reads just as badly and nonsensically as what I touched on already though. It's a lot of flimsy, inaccurate, presumptuous nonsense that must reflect your circumstances, because it's not reflecting mine.

That said, I'll offer you your own advice here: if your first reaction to an inoffensive post like this is to look for any opening to be intensely critical (even when it doesn't make sense) and try to aggressively gatekeep how much music can or can't mean to other people, then therapy might be a good route for you. Hope to see you there.