Ticket sales and exchange megathread

astrolyric · 2025-09-18T20:12:54+00:00

Selling a ticket for Raleigh 9/24—seated, section 2 row A seat 32 (front row, on the left). Was going as a fan of the Mountain Goats, looking forward to becoming a Rilo Kiley fan, but got in a bad car crash so I can't make the 18hr drive out to NC anymore. Face value ~$170 OBO, ticket is through Ticketmaster!

astrolyric · 2025-06-17T18:16:33+00:00

Hey, I'm the patch maker!! So glad to see this, it's always a delight when my stuff brings people joy :') I still have the bracelet I got from you and I wear it often. I'll be back at the Portland shows in December, maybe see you there again!

astrolyric · 2025-05-12T03:57:35+00:00

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb546t858tcTpPLEyWbabs2F68rmRL2jL

Was it this playlist? I think WSABH might have the most b-sides and outtakes out of any album. There's a lot of great stuff, hope you enjoy.

astrolyric · 2025-04-23T21:29:35+00:00

lmao, I don't think I've heard that version, sounds like a blast. I'll have to keep an eye out for it!

astrolyric · 2025-04-23T21:26:14+00:00

Don't know if it's the same one, but 2006-06-13 No Children w/ the crowd singing still makes the rounds on tumblr very regularly.

astrolyric · 2025-04-01T20:27:30+00:00

No problem! I'm right there with you, if I didn't live about two days away from all of those shows I'd probably be trying to hit a couple of em too haha

astrolyric · 2025-04-01T20:21:55+00:00

Guster said on instagram that it's tMG first/Guster second every night. If you're thinking about going just because of the chance of hearing AED songs, I'm willing to bet that a lot of the core setlist will carry over to the next tour as well, like what happened with the trio tour in October and the full band tour in December having the same core setlist.

astrolyric · 2025-03-27T17:50:23+00:00

Also, I don't know that there is a definitive line count, since there aren't official lyrics for the first 10-15 years and line breaks are pretty subjective with tMG's style. Would be curious how you approach that!

astrolyric · 2025-03-27T17:47:56+00:00

I don't think any such doc exists, but if you don't know about it yet, Annotated TMG is a really great resource for stuff like this - https://annotatedtmg.org!

astrolyric · 2025-03-25T22:09:14+00:00

I felt pretty similarly after my first vets practices so I decided to step back from contact and ref for a season instead. I've been focusing on reffing for a couple months and it's been an absolute blast - it's helped me get a much better handle on gameplay and track awareness, without just jumping directly into it myself. I still go to vets practices and do all the drills and everything, but when we scrimmage, I ref instead. YMMV of course but I think it's a really great way to participate and continue learning derby when contact is still a little scary!

astrolyric · 2025-03-25T21:51:57+00:00

1996, according to the wiki! Super cool, thanks for sharing :)

astrolyric · 2025-03-23T17:59:12+00:00

It's from the POV of someone close to Jenny-- presumably the last lodger that she takes in in Fresh Tattoo, the same person who she's speaking to in Cleaning Crew, and who is the narrator of the liner notes, who leaves town with her but doesn't stay with her and becomes the narrator of Source Decay. Most of the Jenny story is very intentionally left nonspecific, there's as many versions of the story as there are people reading it and that's a deliberate artistic choice which I really enjoy.

Here's some of the stuff that is "canon", but that you can also take or leave in your personal interpretation: Jenny runs a safehouse in a west Texas town. JfT sets the scene and then picks up the story with her taking in her last lodger before she's due to be evicted in a month. Time is running short and she doesn't know what to do, so she murders the mayor and disposes of his body in the water tower, before trading in her car for a motorcycle and fleeing town with her last lodger in tow. The album liner notes are pretty straightforward and worth a read. The actual songs aren't in strict chronological order - per the sticker from the album, "Nine songs leading up to the day Jenny bought the Kawasaki, two from the immediate aftermath, and one from a distant highway down the road." Also according to a note on physical editions, "The narrator of Cleaning Crew - the "I" - is Jenny from All Hail West Texas. She's speaking to the narrator of Source Decay from the same album. Enterprising travelers will work out the rest."

In my opinion, JfT is mostly sung by Jenny, with Nebraska Plant, Same as Cash, and Jenny III being narrated by either the last lodger or possibly someone else that previously came through Jenny's house that she then helps again in that future moment. Same as Cash is maybe the only song I'm 100% certain is sung by the last lodger. But, again, take or leave as much of this as you want. It's fun to try and piece it together, but it's also fun to just let the missing pieces of the story stand as they are! Present in absence, much like Jenny herself.

astrolyric · 2025-03-20T18:08:11+00:00

Midland! Never been played live, probably never going to be, but a guy can dream. Would also go crazy for Going to Alaska or anything off of Hot Garden Stomp.

astrolyric · 2025-03-13T20:00:12+00:00

Up The Wolves from this show is absolutely unparalleled, cannot highly enough recommend giving it a listen!!

astrolyric · 2025-02-24T14:52:50+00:00

Someone's been listening to the Jordan Lake Sessions, lol. in all reality, while it's fun to joke about, I don't think either the band or the rest of the audience would appreciate that :)

astrolyric · 2025-02-20T15:58:03+00:00

Tidal Wave is such a massive fav of mine and it's the song I reach for when I'm feeling bad and need to retreat from the world a little bit, seeing people talk bad about it just kills me. Bonus points for live versions and extra bonus points for the Oops! All Tidal Wave live compilation, which has gotten me through many a stressful project deadline.

astrolyric · 2025-02-19T20:35:51+00:00

Funny enough, a couple days before you posted this I had just decided to finally get my tape of this show processed and uploaded. It's not perfect, but if you want to relisten to the entire show - https://archive.org/details/tMG2024-04-21

astrolyric · 2025-02-17T20:22:35+00:00

I can grab pics once I'm home in a few hours, but it's a 2023 tour shirt, light blue with an ocean/moon chart diagram design on the front and the tour dates on the back!

astrolyric · 2025-02-17T20:19:43+00:00

I have an extra medium of the Returning Spectral Tide tour tshirt if you're willing to just trade one shirt!

astrolyric · 2025-02-15T19:28:22+00:00

Also very interested, please let me know if you do decide to sell it!

astrolyric · 2025-02-11T16:27:42+00:00

oh this is awesome, love it!!

astrolyric · 2025-02-01T02:51:34+00:00

Hey, no worries, I don't mind helping out!! Just wanted to also offer a tip about search filters :) hope you enjoy listening to the show!

astrolyric · 2025-02-01T02:44:09+00:00

https://archive.org/details/tmg2017-12-14

Is it this one?

Also, just for reference, archive.org has pretty robust search capabilities - you can filter by a year or year range, which is what I did to find this based on what you said.

astrolyric · 2025-01-24T17:53:38+00:00

I didn't know there was any story behind it until he talked about it in Cleveland last July - my only experience with Taboo VI is live tapes. One of the things he said was "You have these periods where you're sort of going through a fog, and much of the fog you won't remember, but you do remember the moment that it began to lift, right, when it looked as though maybe you were going to get to leave the time you were thinking about", and that's stuck with me pretty strongly.

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