How the hell is a normal person supposed to get tickets?

Trying to go to Madison Square Garden. I lost the ten club ticket lottery, so I was subjected to ticketmaster. But that's how it goes, fair is fair.
It took me maybe 30 seconds to submit my request (and that's if I'm being slow). Tickets were all sold out by the time my wait was over. 20,000 seats were purchased before me in 30 seconds? Effing ticketmaster. Effing redistributed, effing bots. I give up.
It took me maybe 30 seconds to submit my request (and that's if I'm being slow). Tickets were all sold out by the time my wait was over. 20,000 seats were purchased before me in 30 seconds? Effing ticketmaster. Effing redistributed, effing bots. I give up.
I'll ride this wave ...
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I did this for springsteen tickets a few months ago and on one PC I sat there in 2 browsers just waiting in the queue from 10AM (on-sale time) until 11AM. Someone else trying on my behalf started after me, got tickets, tried again, got "none available right now", tried again got more tickets, and then got the sold out message. Meanwhile I was still "in the queue".
As if the brokerage shitshow wasnt bad enough their web application is fucked too.