Radiohead, technology

I'll get into the subject of the title in another post, dealing with the song "Videotape" on Radiohead's new album, but for now, just enjoy the following (a cover of "The Headmaster Ritual" by The Smiths), which is awesome. One quick reflection, though: you can see how very embedded in a discourse of technology the band is in this clip. Thom says before playing that "this is a song about when we were younger, but we didn't write it." What is this but a logic of reproduction that does not simply submit to but gets at the heart of what we mean by the "cover" of a song? That is, the reproduction of "The Headmaster Ritual" is not about just the re-playing of the song in a new way--if this were the case, it wouldn't be a song about when the band was younger. The song itself, replayed, becomes about how they were younger, only because they are replaying it--i.e. because they are not writing it. Thus the song only lives in its reproduction: the song is not some paradigm or idea to instantiate itself everywhere or anywhere. To sum up or retranslate what is being said:  this is Radiohead's song about youth, which if it is to be about something that matters to them cannot be written by them, and only can be in its  reproduction. But enough--I'm not being clear. Just enjoy!