Audrey wrote this over at Melody Nelson:
Hahaha! wait, this isn’t funny! people are already lining up at the beacon theater to buy Radiohead tickets. Tickets go onsale on saturday at 12pm. I repeat: not funny.
It got me to thinking. Radiohead fans are the musical equivalent of Star Wars fans!
They’re standing in line for days to get tickets, just like Star Wars geeks fans. While Star Wars fans would kill someone to get their hand on the Episode I script, Radiohead fans went loopy over leaked tracks. Whenever people heard a rumor about George Lucas burping, they’d write about it … just like they do about Thom Yorke!
I don’t know why anyone hasn’t put these two things together before!
(full disclosure: i was one of those star wars geeks)