Even the biggest bands in the world have to start somewhere, and MGMT started on the quad in college. Recently, footage went viral of MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser performing for friends at Wesleyan University in 2003, and it’s unbearably wholesome.
Consequence of Sound reports that, back then, VanWyngarden and Goldwasser were going by The Management. The pair had just formed their band one year earlier, in 2002, and it would still be about 4 more years before they would drop their debut album, Oracular Spectacular, in 2007. The footage was uploaded to YouTube by a user named Rad Scientist, who explained that they discovered the footage “on an old drive” which they’d previously thought was “gone forever.”
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There is just so much to love about the throwback college gig performance. VanWyngarden and Goldwasser are clearly having a great time — even stopping…
