It may be counter-intuitive, but I would think that taking lessons for the the first 3-6 months of playing would reap more benefits than at any other point. A lot of drumming is not physically obvious: the grip, the feel of proper rebound, the motion of free and double strokes, posture, balance, tuning... these are all things that could be cleaned up within a few months by a decent teacher. If you went in with a stated goal of grasping the basics and then discontinuing lessons, it should be easy to cook up a curriculum. With those basic tools firmly in hand, you could teach yourself confidently from there on. Without them, you could severely slow your progress, damage your cymbals, or even injure your wrists or hands.
Green Day have extremely simple drum lines, but you could also try some Dark Side of the Moon, or nearly anything by AC/DC. Neither is complicated, but demonstrate great feel.