Yes, I went to Warped.

I don't want to get too into typing my thoughts, i'll just sound old and cynical. This section from Warped's Wikipedia page help put things into prespective though, so after the experience, i'm actually more fascinated with "today's youth", rather then be weirded out by how lost i felt.

Controversey :

While many people decry the tour’s rampant commercialism, high concession prices and watered-down music, some defend the changes in the production of the tour through the years. “Warped Tour is a place for teenage kids to go and hear all their favourite bands in one day,” says Rob Pasalic, guitarist for the Saint Alvia Cartel. “It wouldn’t make sense for it to be the same tour in 2007 as it was in 1997. These are the bands that kids like, and the tour is smart enough to grow and adapt to that. You still get bands like Bad Religion playing, so it’s not like it’s lost all its roots.” [2]

Also, this recent article on Spencer Elden, (the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind cover) Is pretty interesting.

Elden says, his peers concentrate on "playing Rock Band on Xbox, like, that's not a real band!...