TOOL Tickets

TOOL tickets went on sale today for the July 25th show at Nokia Theatre through ticketmaster. they went on sale at 10:00 and i was online 45 minutes before just in case they went on sale a few minutes early. at 9:57 ticketmaster allowed me to search for tickets and almost instantly came back with "no tickets available". i repeated this process of trying to get tickets for over an hour after they went on sale with no luck. now it's been confirmed that the show is officially sold out. fucking great.
so you obviously can't get tickets online, and if you call on the phone they put you on hold and you're not able to purchase tickets when they go on sale. if you go to a retail location and there are more than 2 people in line they hand out random numbers. so i could be the very first person in line but the very last person in line gets my tickets. that's bullshit. and if the shows wouldn't sell out so damn fast it wouldn't be such a big deal; but this is TOOL we're talking about and i would do everything in my power to make sure i'm #1 in line.
so i called ticketmaster later in the day, after the show was confirmed to be sold out. i asked them just how exactly one is supposed to purchase tickets and got no answers. and it's not like you can get your tickets anywhere else...ticketmaster is the only option.
i am still planning to try and get tickets to one of the other shows as soon as they are released, but who knows if i'll happen to get that lucky.
this is the second time that this has happened because of ticketmaster. the last time TOOL came to town they did a show in Dallas and it was sold out in 3 seconds. 3 seconds! that's crazy! and someone that i spoke to at ticketmaster said that all of the tickets are not released at the same time. she said that they are released in groups. what the hell? i just cannot believe this, how can they do this? and to the fucking scalpers, quit buying up the fan's well-deserved tickets!