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    MGMT - Time to Pretend

    In 2002, Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden became friends while attending college in Connecticut. They formed what grew to become MGMT at the time, sharing their performance art based music with friends and fans...

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    By Ariana Morgenstern • Mar 27, 2008 • 1 min read

    In 2002, Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden became friends while attending college in Connecticut. they formed what grew to become MGMT at the time, sharing their performance art based music with friends and fans. By 2006, the bidding war ended when Columbia/Red Ink signed them. They regrouped in Brooklyn and worked on a great CD called Oracular Spectacular. Here’s a cut from it, it’s today’s top tune, the clean edit of Time to Pretend.

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