Why It's a Mistake to Blame Taylor Swift—or Businesses—for Rising Prices When ‘Swifties’ Come to Town

Taylor Swift's recent visit to the city of Pittsburgh left some with a bad taste in their mouths.

As one incensed citizen writes in a letter to the editor, It's a shame when people visiting Pittsburgh for a reunion, wedding, graduation or some other event have to pay three times the cost of a hotel room because greedy owners are gouging patrons because of a concert at the stadium, which the visitors were not in town for to begin with."