MOUNTAIN GOATS
BEAT THE CHAMP - LP

UPC: 673855051611
Label: MERGE RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: April 7, 2015
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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