The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ [Vinyl]

Name: The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ [Vinyl]
Brand: Merge Records
SKU: 93302
Price: 32.99 USD
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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 in the blood and fire of the visions that spoke to me as a child, and to see what more there might be in them now that I'm grown. — John Darnielle, Durham, NC

Tracklist:

Southwestern Territory 04:14
he Legend of Chavo Guerrero 03:00
Foreign Object 02:52
Animal Mask 02:55
Choked Out 01:43
Heel Turn 2 05:58
Fire Editorial 03:23
Stabbed to Death Outside San Juan 03:49
Werewolf Gimmick 02:35 1
Luna 03:28 1
Unmasked! 03:29 1
The Ballad of Bull Ramos 02:53 1
Hair Match 05:41

UPC: 673855051611
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 4.7.15
Format: Vinyl

27 in stock

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