well sure you could do that. You need to solder it if you plan on using it 
Making the daft punk helmet is going to be an interesting project. If you plan on individually control each LED (which it looks like he is doing), you are going to need to learn about multiplexing. Search around the forums for multiplexing LEDs. There are a bunch of ways to do this, thought if you want to control 80 LEDs like he is doing, you are probably going to need LED drivers like the MAX 7221
Also you are going to need to solder the LEDs into a matrix form. There are many tutorials on this as well. Alternatively, you could buy a few pre built LED matrixes from a company like sparkfun.
This should start you off, good luck