This Is What You Get

So I saw Radiohead tonight with my friends Melinda and David. Radiohead is very very good. They played a longish set and played it well. I think I'd underestimated the instrumental cops of Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke; of course, I hadn't seen them since 1994 or so. The sound quality at the venue (Verizon Wireless Center in Indianapolis) was excellent.

Two thoughts about the concert experience:

1) The t-shirts were $40, expensive even by concert t-shirt standards. Apparently, they're made, in part, from recycled plastic bottles. I read a website that detailed the relative positive environmental impact of this approach; I think each shirt you buy saves like, seven dolphins. Now, I'm a little hipster, but I'm not $40 artsily-puncuated-and-spaced dolphin-saving Radiohead shirt hipster.

2) Every time they played a quieter song, everyone around me took the opportunity to chat to each other or on their cell phones. Forgetting any arguments that they should be more considerate of others, were not these people there to see Radiohead as well? I was relieved that they didn't play 'Fake Plastic Trees', and that's kinda' wrong.

Anyway, a grand time was had by all in attendance.