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    John Darnielle of THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

    Oct 26, 2019 2 minutes
    As Told to Matt Fink

    I was living in Portland in ’85-’86, and I wouldn’t say I was an apprentice speed freak, because I wasn’t on speed all of the time, but I was quite often taking really hard speed—crystal meth. And that kind of music was very popular with people who were into that. I was a goth guy mainly in my

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