The Mountain Goats

:D

v pumped to see them live for the first time in santa fe this sept

Haven't listened yet (at work).

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-the-mountain-goats-tribute-to-wrestler-sasha-banks-w521694

hah

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2018/08/29/the-lagniappe-sessions-mountain-goats/

oh man, "blood bank"!

i love that "blood bank" is a song that two of my favorite lyricists love (the other being stephan jenkins)

So I was thrilled when @mountain_goats mentioned a membership card but this??? This fucking masterpiece??? pic.twitter.com/8EQOuV6fYW

— mary (@marfybarpes) August 31, 2018

ok that's pretty good lol

How did I miss this cover from 2016?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KVTp0A1pqE

Do we talk about the call-out post floating around?

*searches twitter* This does not, to me, rise to the level of a thing that bears talking about as like a news item.

That is because it is not a news item, but that does not necessarily mean it is not worth talking about (though obviously this thread may not be the most receptive).

My reaction is that I would have to hear from j0hn about it, which is a response that tends to raise my own eyebrows in most circumstances, but I am hopelessly compromised here, as I am both a fan and someone who sees him being a good friend to many of my friends.

That's fair. I struggled to parse the exact reason for the claimant having posted it at all but I could be missing something.

i think this explains it well enough

I read that dumb thing three times and can't figure out what the hell OP thinks tMG did that was worth posting about.

Me neither

His obsessive fans are really weird ime

it's stupid and not worth taking seriously

Solid thoughts. Might be worth reading Eric’s link, all the same.

tl;dr plz anyone

Like, being a Mountain Goats fan would not, to me, suggest that ‘really weird’ means ‘take less care’.

Tumblr user/tMG fan reports feeling manipulated/emotionally taken advantage of by j0hn D over twitter DM over a period of months, after having met and hung after a concert. Produces screenshots of conversations. xp

I was hoping that this thread was revived because of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5-lBv_X_yA

But instead there's skulduggery. Boo.

That Sex Pistols cover fucking rules and so does Erik Rutan!

I am probably not going to give the most "woke" take on the JD deal but reading it made me pine for the times when the most interaction a musician and fan expected from one another was a blow job.

i gotta say you could've not posted that

If me being glib causes people to miss the point, I guess that's on me. The point I am making shouldn't be too controversial: The dynamics of celebrity and fans are a lot different than they were not very long ago. This shit didn't happen to Pamela Des Barres or Cynthia Plaster Caster.

Xp The Rod Stewart thing was a myth, dude

it was nice to hear tMG at the end of that skater documentary on Hulu. The name of which escapes me right now.

tumbler people are weirdos

I wish Tumblr call-outs were available to fixated fans in the 80s and 90s, maybe John Lennon and Selena would still be alive

my takeaway is NEVER BE NICE OR MEET ANYONE EVER

sorry if this is not supportive but finding that tumblr 'call out' post (which was easy) jsut makes me think the writer is crazy and frankly a bit scary. the worship shit is ... jesus dude, calm the fuck down.

just because someone is nice to you doesn't mean they are going to save you. WTF did you want?

I'd like to point out that several takes here (and elsewhere) are a lot more dismissive of the power dynamic involved than I ever was and I firmly expect everyone who decided that me saying "blow job" was insensitive to be even more outraged.

oh boy i thought you were so insensitive when you said "blow job"

fuck off

i've got thoughts about this that are more complicated than "wow that tumblr person sure is [x]" that i haven't entirely disentangled yet but if you're pining for even more boundariless years of fan/artist relationships then idk what to tell you, read the fucking weinstein thread

what a gross and stupid and unnecessary thing to say and then get fucking defensive about

Me thinks the Princess protests too much for someone calling others "defensive."

But hate-post again, please. Extra spittle if you please.

Wow cool poster

I am probably not going to give the most "woke" take

a solid sign you should stop typing

You're right, I should have let the comment stand without the disclaimer.

Bringing up Weinstein in this matter is a sign you should never have typed in the first place. False equivalence gave us Donald Trump, you know.

jfcnative

can there be a trump corollary to godwin's law

i've got thoughts about this that are more complicated

I elaborated when I said "The dynamics of celebrity and fans are a lot different than they were not very long ago." You ignored that. If you'd rather just be outraged, I can't tell you not to be. Your choice of target is a head-scratcher I will concede.

It’s cool that this discussion about a community member of ours being called out for some possibly questionable behavior is now about some rando insulting people

i was fine with that explanation until you were a shithead about my complaint just a few minutes later!!!! xp

NYCNative is a longtime poster iirc

it's true

We can compare that questionable behavior of the community member of ours to what Harvey Weinstein did instead.

Why isn't that more offensive than an offhand reference to consensual oral sex?