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They wear their obscurity and weirdness like badges of honor, beaming with pride, for example, when describing disenchanted fans. “We’ve invited strangers onto our bus, where we end up listening to weird music, getting stoned and playing with puppets,” VanWyngarden says. “A few times they would be like, ‘You guys are dorks,’ and leave.” Their bond is that of two old friends who started a band, rather than bandmates who’ve become friends. They met when they were 18, as freshmen at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Stories abound of their college bacchanals—most of them involving nudity and hallucinogens—but Goldwasser says it was the perfect place to make music: nonjudgmental, uncritical and hungry for culture. “People just wanted to see shows,” he says. “They didn’t care how good we were. They were very tolerant of weirdness and didn’t expect to see a polished band play.” In VanWyngarden’s retelling, the people were less important than the countryside. “More than any class I took on Islamic history,” he says, “my education at Wesleyan was about running around ponds in my underwear catching frogs and exploring the countryside while taking mushrooms.”

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