Alabama concert strikes the wrong noteAlabama is spending up to $1.5m of BP's money next week on a beachside music concert and the main beneficiaries so far are touts accused of cornering the market in 35,000 "free" tickets.
Both local residents and out-of-state fans are in uproar after failing to get tickets to an event that was meant to provide an interlude of cheer in the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis and give a boost to Alabama's struggling tourism industry.
