Before social media made everyone needy and uncool, there used to be this thing called mystique — and you could often find it radiating from this other thing called rock-and-roll. In his 1970s suburban Connecticut adolescence, Thurston Moore became obsessed with both, studying his Stooges and Captain Beefheart records, trying to learn the ways in which shy weirdos transformed themselves into heroic mystery-freaks, until he eventually pulled the whole trick off himself, co-founding one of the coolest bands to ever exist.
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