i really like them, but by far my favorite songs are X&Y, Talk, and The Scientist
i have all their albums, other than a select few, the rest of X&Y sucked
He is not wrapping his hands in tape, what he is doing is pencilling in an equals sign on the front of his hand everytime they do a gig to symbolise "equal trade"...the band have been heavily involved in this campaign from the start as they can see the terrible exploits the western world has implaced on impoverished nations via trade...