The Mountain Goats "Beat the Champ" 2025-10-03 High fidelity demo versions of

High fidelity demo versions of some of their best loved songs

Fruit Bats

fusing elements of new wave

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

reimagined 20 years later

The Mountain Goats "Beat the Champ" 2025-10-03 High fidelity demo versions ofDouble 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