From The Comments Of The AV Club's Take On The Pitchfork Festival In Chicago

7:25pm, Sean: Backstage in the line for free Chipotle burritos, Spoon's Britt Daniel uses the old "Just wanted to say hi—not trying to cut the line!" trick on me to cut the line. He tells the Chipotle rep how he used to be a stockholder in the company, but sold it when it dropped below 80 points. "Oh, but we just closed at 89!" she says. "No, I'm pretty sure you closed at 72," he says, as they play an uncomfortable round of "respectfully disagree." Then he pulls out his Blackberry to check. This is perhaps the least rock 'n' roll thing I have ever witnessed.

Just admit it
by well

Nobody wanted to watch Spoon because Britt Daniel is the Gordon Gekko of indie-rock.

3:34 PM Mon July 21, 2008

hipster doofus
that, for lack of a better word, is good.

Tod2001
He's the Billy Joel of grandparent-approved-indie-rock.

Keith Phipps
I love Spoon. But I've seen them four or five times. Also, I had to check my stocks.

willem
For me it's not as much about Britt Daniel as it is Spoon's MUSIC.
Oh yeah...forgot about that stuff, eh?

Britt Daniel (as played by Denis Leary)
Well for me it's all about IPO's and bulls and bears and Morgan Stanley and Fannie Mae and David Dudikoff and that crazy guy with the buttons on MSNBC and Rush Limbaugh...

and interest rates, and the fed, and mortgage crisis profiteering, and Conde Nast, hedge funds, broker fees, Charles Schwab, Colonel Sanders, Deion Sanders, Dionne Warwick, Warwick Davis, Bette Davis, Betty Crocker, Joe Cocker, Joe Montana, Tony Montana, Tony Soprano, soppressetta, proscuitto, provolone, Axe body spray, Florence Henderson, Harry and the Hendersons, MTV, HIV, ICUP...

Danity Kane, Fredro Starr, Fortune 500, Bill O'Reilly, driving around in my 14 mile per gallon Cadillac Escalade with a John McCain sticker on my rear window, Fox News, Fox Sports, Fox Fur Coats, Hall and Oates, ballin' goats, lighting my Cubans with original Honus Wagner baseball cards...

...chocolate doughnuts, and then the music. Why? Because fuck you, that's why.

Koff
Yes! Someone had to say it.

That One Guy From Almost Famous
Finally. The truth!