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this post is brought to you by that one mountain goats song you haven’t heard yet (bc theres always one you haven’t heard yet) but that when you do, it will change you.

also viewers like you! thank you.

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how do people not like we shall all be healed. like sorry you dont enjoy the piano melody in the young thousands that sounds like come all ye faithful. sorry you didnt dream of a factory where they manufactured what you needed!

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Hey! I wanna talk for a sec about the Live Music Archive. If you're a tMG fan who's on here you probably already at least know about it, but for anyone unfamiliar I want to do a quick post talking about what it is and how you can listen!

The Live Music Archive is a collection hosted by the Internet Archive for audio recordings of concerts. Specifically, the LMA hosts, with permission from the band, user-contributed recordings of concerts. Some fans will go to concerts with recording gear to take a full audio recording of the show and then upload it to the archive under the band's collection. As of writing this post there are almost 450 live tapes uploaded to the tMG LMA collection!

There's a few ways that you can listen to recordings on the Live Music Archive. The webpage works pretty well both on desktop and mobile browsers, and that's what I typically use. You can also listen on web without having to make an account on the Internet Archive, which is convenient for browsing. I also use the webpage to download mp3s of favorite tapes to my phone, so that I can listen to them in my local music player.

However, if you don't mind making a free account and prefer the convenience of something more like Spotify, you can also listen to anything on the LMA via the Taper's Section app for Android or the Live Music Archive app for iOS! (Obligatory disclaimer that I use an Android and can't personally vouch for the iOS app, but afaik they have similar features.) The apps have the same functionality as the webpage in a more streamlined mobile-friendly interface, plus things like notifications when there's a new tape added to a collection you follow and downloading in-app for offline listening. The Android app also has a tab for tapes from today's date, there's often at least one (there are FOUR for today!) and that's a really fun way to find tapes to listen to.

If you're looking at this going, wow, that sounds really cool but there's so many tapes that it's a little overwhelming to get into this, don't worry! I'll leave you with a couple recommendations. As mentioned above, I like to listen to shows from the current date. Another fun way to find shows is looking for a specific song - you can go on the wiki and it'll list every show at which the song has been played live, and then just search until you find one of them that has a tape on the archive. Lastly, a few specific favorite tapes of mine:

- 2014-06-15 has the entirety of Taboo VI: The Homecoming played live + one of my absolute favorite performances of both Woke Up New and The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton.

- 2015-06-01 is the only time Straight Six has ever been played live and it's interestingly pretty different from the EP version, plus a phenomenal back to back Spent Gladiator 1 & 2.

- 2021-08-06 was the first show after the band started playing concerts again post 2020, and it has a really incredible energy and a phenomenal setlist.

- 2024-03-01 is from the recent run of solo shows, this one was at Grace Cathedral and the ambience is truly truly incredible, it feels so ethereal.

Please feel free to add any additional notes or some of your own favorite tapes to the post as well! Happy listening!!

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life advice from the mountain goats:

- lie to the cops

- watch for the signs and learn how to read

- let all the lights blaze, keep your heart light, play really loud music all hours of the night

- do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive, do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away

- life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar

- steal what you need

- bring back some blurry pictures to remember all your darker moments by

- read all about it on the wikipedia page

- don't hurt anybody on your way up to the light, and stay alive, just stay alive

- make it through this year

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wind up on your own floor / choking on blood

Sept 15th 1983 by The Mountain Goats + the derelict building that burnt down over the weekend

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Hands in your pockets and sun on your face, the warm love of God coursing through you.

home again garden grove - the mountain goats // art by bill anton

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some good additions from the notes:

- cover your eyes when the splash comes (it's the only thing you can do)

- if the strain proves too much, give up right away, if the light hurts your eyes, stay in your room all day

- learn that from right here the view goes on forever and you'll never want for comfort and you'll never be alone

- bribe all the officials and kill all the judges

- hail satan

life advice from the mountain goats:

- lie to the cops

- watch for the signs and learn how to read

- let all the lights blaze, keep your heart light, play really loud music all hours of the night

- do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive, do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away

- life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar

- steal what you need

- bring back some blurry pictures to remember all your darker moments by

- read all about it on the wikipedia page

- don't hurt anybody on your way up to the light, and stay alive, just stay alive

- make it through this year

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anyone else feeling the storm every night and hoping it passes by or just me

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I WILL BE WALKING OUT OF HERE IN ONE PIECE AND I DON'T CARE WHAT COMES AFTER!

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Maybe I never learned the value of a penny.

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the thing about having seen the mountain goats in concert is that now i want to do it 500 more times

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if not by faith, then by the sword, i'm going to be restored

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id: 2 bottles of hrt the left is estradiol cypionate and the right is testosterone propionate, below them is text in a spiky handwriting font that says "I'm going to get my perfect body back someday", the whole image is b&w except for a pink label with a blue outline on the E bottle and a blue label with a pink outline on the T bottle end id.

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let the scavengers proclaim what its bones are worth. btw.

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thank you matt douglas for this enlightening glimpse into the recording of bleed out <3

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generally I only talk about specific interactions that I have with people at concerts with my friends not on my public blog however this one was awesome and I want to share it, so. time for a little story!

at the st louis show on saturday, I wound up standing next to and talking to a really lovely older guy whose name I don't remember (i want to say maybe jason? but I'm not sure, sorry) but he was an absolute delight and has been a goats fan since they were playing shows to 30 people in someone's living room in the 90s. we talked a lot about what it's like to see the community from then to now and how cool it is to be in a still active and growing community that also has such a deep history. he told me about how he was there the very first time they ever played no children, and I got to tell him about some of the archival work that goes on and introduced him to the live music archive!

I asked him if he had any cool rare memorabilia; he's got a CCTtST and a MCB record, and a big box of old merch t-shirts. he mentioned one shirt specifically, an australia tour shirt that said "south side" or something like that instead of "australia" - the shirt with the "ready for the future" design, he said, have you seen that one? and, friends, it was at this point I got out my phone and showed him my homescreen...

[image description: a screenshot of my phone, showing off the wallpaper, which is a black design of headstones sprawling up a hill and text reading "Ready For The Future" at the bottom. the design is set against a dark blue to dusty orange-pink gradient. end ID]

...which is a digital copy that I made of the exact t-shirt design he was talking about.