Car-phobic Thom Yorke and his merry pranksters (also known as Radiohead) have announced via their website plans to broadcast the final show of their 2008 North American tour live on the internet. In an odd twist of fate, this coincides with Barack Obama's nomination acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver in front of a crowd that could reach 80,000. New York Magazine's website stipulates that the epic concert will "likely distract millions of young, progressive voters from Barack Obama's acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination, scheduled for the exact same time, thereby clinching a Republican victory this November."
Tonight, while Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination for president, becoming the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party, Radiohead will play their unique brand of space-rock to a delicately balanced audience of bros and psuedo-hipsters. Much like the fill-in-the-blank price of their sixth studio album, In Rainbows, the choice is yours.
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