It’s hard to overstate how magical Radiohead’s shows were on any given night during the year 2000. After the agony of the OKC tour and the protracted misery of the Kid A sessions (when fans were hanging on with white knuckles and gritted teeth as word filtered out from the band’s camp that they were perilously close to a break-up), they hit the road with the goal of fleshing out these hermetic studio-bound creations and it was suddenly like a weight had been lifted from their shoulders. After the weird, alienating early Kid A gigs they moved their act outdoors (and, famously, into a custom-built circus tent) and began to feed off the warmth of an audience that had been downloading cruddy mp3s of the summer’s shows as well as leaked copies of the album. Nijmegen finds them at the beginning of that success cycle, and it’s a piker of a show, with a perfect “In Limbo” (in its 2000-era arrangement with Nigel Godrich on tambourine), a blazing “Planet Telex,” and my favorite-ever performance of “Killer Cars” (the second-to-last one, too). A high energy gig in flawless SBD sound quality that’s well worth owning.