The Mountain Goats "Beat the Champ" 2025-10-03 including standards and new cuts

including standards and new cuts from Virgil

and you're left with one of the most creative and jubilant hip-hop records to date

fusing elements of new wave

gold coloured vinyl

Fruit Bats

The Mountain Goats "Beat the Champ" 2025-10-03 including standards and new cutsDouble vinyl LP pressing include digital download. 2015 release from the veteran indie folk band led by John Darnielle. Beat the Champ is about professional wrestling, which was an avenue of escape for me when I was a kid. Wrestling was low budget working class entertainment back then, strictly UHF material. It was cheap theater. You had to bring your imagination to the proceedings and you got paid back double. I wrote these songs to re immerse myself