Well, we tried.

As parents of a 7-year-old girl, we hopped online at noon and tried to score tickets to the Hannah Montana concert at the Bradley Center.

For 25 minutes, I surfed to Ticketmaster.com, punched in whatever encrypted password they asked me to repeat (samples included "pence," "control," "storify," "nucula," "proviso," "grisly," "agrief," "stymie," "refloat," "neocene," uncord," "shanny" and "gresiden").

No dice.

Half of the tickets sold out Friday night, when they went on sale to Hannah Montana fan club members. Our little one wasn't eligible for that, because you can only use each account once and she did it to score tickets to the recent show in Rosemont, Ill.

The rest of the tickets were gobbled up by about 12:20 p.m. From now until the show, which is slated for 4 p.m. Jan. 13 -- and therefore could coincide with a Packers playoff game -- you'll be hearing about wacky radio contests and exorbitant scalper prices -- we're talking about $400 to $4,000, folks -- and the lengths that we indulgent parents will go to in order to allow our kids to be in the same room as their TV hero.

If you're wondering who this "Hannah Montana" person is, her name is Miley Cyrus, she is the daughter of "Achy Breaky Heart" singer Billy Ray Cyrus and she starts in a Disney Channel sitcom, "Hannah Montana," in which she portrays a normal teenager who secretly happens to be a major pop star. (She wears a blonde wig onstage).

Think back to your childhood. This tour has all the heat of a New Kids on the Block, ‘N Sync, Menudo, Jackson 5, Osmond / Partridge Family tour.

It's basically the Tickle Me, Elmo tour for the ‘tween set. With the way the music industry is going these days, hers is one of the only sure-fire sellouts on the concert circuit.

Our little one saw the show once and loved it. We'll try to score some tickets for her to see it again, but you won't see me in one of those "wear a wig and lip sync" contests that will pop up between now and then.