With the music industry in such a state these days, any number of things might cause an artist to launch into a righteous tirade against the myriad issues facing working musicians. For Garbage’s Shirley Manson , that thing was a beach ball.

During a set at the Good Things festival in Melbourne, Australia, today (Dec. 5), Manson went all the way off after spotting a beach ball bouncing around in the crowd. Based on the video (shared by Stereogum), it doesn’t even look like the offending beach ball made it on stage, or even near Manson. But its mere presence was enough to inspire a righteous rebuke of music industry economics, lousy crowd behavior, and lame dudes in goofy hats.

“Big guy with your big fucking beach ball! Ooh, I’m so scared of you, so thrilled by you! What a fuck

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