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Carrie Underwood's summer concert tour was announced last week on Good Morning America and one of her stops will be Time Warner Cable Arena right here in Charlotte. As I set a reminder for myself so that I can get online right when the tickets go on sale, I then wondered why I should even bother. Everyone knows what happens. Corrupt individuals and/or organizations go online and snatch up as many tickets as possible so that they can then sell them for five times the face value on websites like StubHub.com. Then people like you and me are asked to pay $200 per ticket for a seat where you just end up watching the concert on the big screen any way. With the Internet dominating concert sales, ticket offices have become obsolete. Remember the good ol' days when your mom actually had to drive you to the Ticketmaster office in Hecht's department store at SouthPark so that you could wait in a real line, with real people, to buy tickets for Center City Fest? I miss that. I miss telling an actual person that I need two tickets, best seats they have available. Now by the time I figure out the cryptic code that websites force you to type in, the "good" seats I had are gone, sold, no doubt, to someone with plans to re-sell them. So here's to hoping that I can get in there quick enough to get Carrie Underwood tickets for the actual cost. And if come November, something else comes up and I can't go to the concert, I will be selling my tickets for face value.