>the instruments were an invitation for the crowd to make something themselves.

>Instead they destroyed everything and just plugged in an ipod.

>When they were confronted with themselves, when there was no stimulus to entertain them, they couldn't handle it so they have to plug in the ipod as soon as they can

>Most of those people in the crowd are probably just like the average person who spends all their spare time plugged in, texting, watching tv, on the computer, on an ipod. The most creative thing they could muster to do in the situation was to retreat to an ipod and smash shit.

>Wouldn't it have been a better story if they had played the show themselves?

I'm not sure about that, that wouldn't have happened even if they were asked to come up and do something. They probably wouldn't have been allowed. I think it was more about release, and the suicide note seems to back that up.Power and techno-primitivism, a very Death Grips-y combination.That's partly the point; they used technological advances (iPods) to sate primal urges within them.My point exactly, they have this technology and yet they are still motivated by the same thing that has motivated human beings since before recorded history.You wouldn't have heard about it and you probably would have wanted them to get off the stage. Unless they have an artistic vision and some form of skill, then it's going to be amateurish at best. Technology also makes creation possible, but creation is not always power, nor was it what people came for (that is, energy, power, and an experience in which those could be expressed properly and appropriately). Imagine if someone tried to get up and play those instruments, they'd be booed off the stage because people know what they came for, and in the end, in their own way, they got it. It wasn't open mic night, it was a Death Grips show.