#tmg sticker

[stargayart]

"When the police come to get me, I'm listening to dance music."

you can find this as a sticker on my etsy if you're interested! 👀

[jennyfromthebes]

hi!! i know you've posted some favorite liveshows before but as someone who gets easily overwhelmed choosing shows off the Archive i'd love to hear some more of your fave shows to listen to!

Hi!! Here's a handful of recs, but if you want a more specific vibe feel free to send another ask and I can definitely give more :)

2023-07-13 (Four-piece band configuration) is maybe my all-time favorite for sentimental reasons, since that was my first tMG concert ever. Primarily Bleed Out and The Sunset Tree, with a banger solo set of Jam Eater Blues/Commandante/From TG&Y/The Monkey Song. Crowd energy is really high and there's some delightful banter and interactions!

2017-11-11 (Four-piece band configuration) is a slightly older but still fairly recent one. Since they were touring Goths at the time, it's a pretty Goths-heavy setlist, with my all-time favorite rendition of Shelved, also featuring a really cool solo Night Light and a gorgeous full band rendition of Snow Crush Killing Song!

2021-08-06 (Five-piece band, with fifth goat Erin McKeown) is notable for being the first show back after a year and a half of lockdown, and the energy is palpable. Live debut of a lot of Getting Into Knives, featuring an unreleased song and one from the first tape, and overall really fantastic and high-energy from both the band and the audience. This show is the one I reach for when I've had a bad day.

2009-06-13 (John solo) was the first of two shows back-to-back at Zoop, and while I shy away from describing any shows as "definitive", the Zoop shows are big in the same way Bottom Of The Hill shows are big. This one features a really great range of older and more obscure songs, and if you like this one, there's another show directly following it!

2014-06-15 (John + Peter duo), speaking of Bottom Of The Hill, this is a favorite BotH show! They play the entirety of Taboo VI: The Homecoming, and to this day I've still never listened to the actual Taboo VI tape, just this performance. It's the third of three consecutive shows at BotH, and all three are worth a listen for sure, but this one is my go-to recommendation.

2024-03-01 (John solo) is probably one you've seen me recommend before. This solo show from earlier this year was at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and the atmosphere of it is haunting and gorgeous. The acoustics of the cathedral make a lot of these songs just immensely powerful - there's something about this Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod that makes me cry pretty much every time I listen to it.

Additionally, no talk of live tape recs is complete without shouting out Emerald's live comps! You might know Emerald as The Sticker Lady, or if you've spent a few hours in queue with her, just an absolute delight of a human being and one of my favorite people in this community - she's seen tMG probably a hundred times, and each of her themed compilations are lovingly made with great skill and artistry.

(ETA: also worth including here, What's the Live Music Archive?)

Hopefully this is a decent enough rec list! I tried to keep a decent assortment of shows without being too overwhelming with options, but again, please feel free to drop another ask if you want more specific recs or anything. Happy listening!!

[deermouth]

My computer is so cute. Tbh. I need more band stickers so it doesn't look like I Only listen to tmg, but still. I have great taste in stickers.

[achillurrito]

Just got my JfT vinyl in the mail

It's so fucking good.

Like, I think I have a new favorite TMG album. It's just so fucking good. Jenny III Is my personal favorite.

Anyway, the reason I'm making this post is the little sticker that came attached to the plastic wrapping. It reads: "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"

So when the album officially releases tomorrow and everyone is piecing together how this album fits in to other songs, I feel like this could be useful for assembling the timeline since the songs aren't chronological order.

Also, I doubt anyone cares about spoilers, but just in case, some additional things I wanted to mention under the cut

-Distant Stations is mentioned. And it seems like the song itself may be from the perspective of the second narrator speaking to Jenny.

-The second narrator, Jenny's lover, is almost certainly The Woman from Taipei. Everyone was pretty sure Jenny was a lesbian anyway, but the way that The Woman from Taipei is

Introduced first in Color in Your Cheeks

The one houseguest spoken directly to (rather than about) in Clean Slate Makes her seem especially important.

-Somewhere along the line the bike was ditched. It is unclear if this was by Jenny or by William Staniforth Donahue. The way the second narrator talks about it rotting in a junkyard makes me think that Jenny ditched it William found it in the junkyard.

[mightysen]

Hi! I bought a jerma sticker from you at TMG, but it's not on your online store. Are you going to put it in your online store in the future? I have a friend who'd love a copy. Thanks!

Hi there! So glad you found my booth at TooManyGames and like my silly little art! 💖

I'm currently in the middle of a busy con season (I am packing for Anime Expo as we speak lol), so it'll be a hot minute before I'm able to update my store. I'll try and put out a big store update, but it likely won't be until around September once my events slow down and I have the time. I'll be sure to post about such an update on my socials, so keep your eyes peeled! In the meantime, you can also view my event schedule to see if I'll be at a con near you!

[gracelandmp3]

looked at the tmg reddit and saw that the person who does the stickers is gonna be at the show tn so im thinking i do . not need to try and tape bc i think they usually do . unless

[unloneliest]

BITCH THE NEW TMG MYSTERY STICKER WE ARE SO. GETTING A JENNY ALBUM

[mintcakeart]

male manipulator music my beloved

[okarasusama]

update on the mountain goats concert:

im a different person

[untilolympiusreturns]

so um today the art teacher’s ta revealed she also listens to the mountain goats 

[jennyfromthebes]

#also if ur thinking abt getting into taping and you’re going to tmg live shows in the us there’s a couple usual suspects who are rly nice! #you’ll meet them if ur early lining up before doors #i think it’s thegemthecolor on ig or something like that . her husband #but they go all over (via @gracelandmp3)

YES!!! I wasn't gonna get too much into the making and contributing of tapes on this post (as an aspiring taper myself I've been learning a lot of stuff the past ~6mo and gathering resources that I am gonna compile and share at some point, but until then my asks/DMs are always open, and searching or asking for advice on the tMG subreddit is a good place to start) but you're spot on with this! The prolific taper LMGBTapes is Kyle (u/abluecolor), and TheGemTheColor (can be found on instagram but primarily posts about her bakery business on there) is Emerald Green the Sticker Lady, who makes and gives out stickers at shows they go to. They're married and work as a duo, and they're an absolute force of nature that I have mad respect for. If I remember right they're Arizona-based so you'll see them mostly at west coast shows - I had the delight of meeting the two of them at the Portland show last month and got to chat with Kyle about taping stuff before the show and while he was setting up. Kyle is probably the most notable or at least the most public taper in current tMG spaces, and if you want to keep up with what they're doing and where they're going the best way to do that is Emerald's email newsletter. They'll be taping the Colorado shows later this month, if you're at any of those definitely say hi and thank them for what they do!

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!!

[ilovealeclightwood]

i am an adult man who spent $18 on stickers and i’m so excited for them

[doctors-daughter]

Hey y’all!  I made this cute design of Charlotte from The Midnight Gospel!  It’s available for purchase on RedBubble in its many forms (stickers, prints, etc.) if you’re interested.  I loved this series so much, and I hope you do too <3

[iwrotemrtambourineman]

I was tagged by @frogeye-pierce, @yaroantheo, and @giaucherie to do this fun tag game! thanks y’all, these are always exciting to do!! I’m just going to plop it under the readmore cause it got long

nicknames: technically abby is a nickname, but also abs and snuff on occasion :-)

zodiac: pisces 🐟

height: 5’5”, practically average in every way haha

last movie watched: the big chill (1983), it’s one of my moms favorite movies so we had a watch night since it just got added to the criterion channel

last thing I googled: the restaurant menu where we got take out from tonight

favorite musician: I can’t pick just one!! I will say that tmg and mitski have been in my top five artist for the like last five years, so like statistically them but I could never pick.

song stuck in my head: the tide is high - blondie

other blogs: I refuse to at the other one here b/c I can’t have people I know irl read my fanfics but like iykyk ✌️I also have an old art blog somewhere but I haven’t posted since high school

blogs followed: 293

hours of sleep: I am terrible and will sleep for 12 hrs a night but I think it’s to make up for sleeping only like 3hrs a night for a non-zero amount of time in high school. 8hrs is ideal though 👍

lucky numbers: 5, it was my number when I played soccer so now it’s forever my number :-)

what I am wearing: funky mom jeans, brown leather belt, and a black silky tank top

dream job: in a perfect world, I’d love to be an interactive narrative designer!! But I also really love web development and also I think I’d be a good project manager cause I know how to wrangle programmers. I’d also really love to be a bartender for a little bit, so we’ll see where life takes me

dream trip: I was supposed to go to Paris last spring, but alas! Uhh I can’t really think of one dream trip™️, but I would just like to travel abroad more in general!! Maybe hop around in Europe, or go to Japan. I also really want to go down to New Orleans and I’m planning on going back east to visit friends in New York and Rhode Island when I can!

favorite food: oh god, there’s too many to pick from!! I literally will never turn down sushi, I love oysters, a bagel with cream cheese and lox and capers, chana masala, and fresh chocolate chip cookies come to mind too

play an instrument: I used to play violin and I can kind of play the ukulele

languages: I am only fluent in English, but I took Spanish for 11 years so I can communicate very basically in that as well and want to start relearning it

favorite songs: I wrote mr. tambourine man - john craigie, golden boy - tmg, graceland - paul simon, golden slumbers/carry that weight/the end - the beatles, texas reznikoff- mitski, San Marcos - BROCKHAMPTON, Ketchum, ID - boygenius to name a few (I could keep going but I’m stopping myself)

random fact: I’ve been to Niagara Falls multiple times, but only on the Canadian side. Along with that, the only two countries I’ve been to outside the US are Canada and China.

describe yourself in aesthetic things: a laptop covered in national park stickers, thrifted Hawaiian shirts, bonfires on the beach, novelty haunted houses, sand sticking to your sandals, jars full of salt water taffy, a circus tent, the opening scene of the parent trap, the stars peaking through the trees above, riding the monorail to prom, leather boots, a dirty martini.

I’m going to tag @raksheshi @tallsinspace @goatmilkoatmilk and @backwardsheadphones if y’all want to!

[trapper-faggot]

Oh my god last night was amazing!!!!

They’re here 3 nights, and tonight’s sold out but considering dropping another 50 bucks to go tomorrow night too, John changes the set list up every show and it was so so good

YALLLL I'm seeing the fucking mountain goats live in concert tonight holy SHIT

[hotmesshapa]

someone pls talk me out of buying the new tmg hoodie and stickers