The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ [2015][FLAC]

The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ [2015][FLAC]

Released ................ 2015
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... Alternative
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 KHz
Log ..................... No
Cue ..................... No

01 - Southwestern Territory
02 - The Legend of Chavo Guerrero
03 - Foreign Object
04 - Animal Mask
05 - Choked Out
06 - Heel Turn 2
07 - Fire Editorial
08 - Stabbed to Death Outside San Juan
09 - Werewolf Gimmick
10 - Luna
11 - Unmasked!
12 - The Ballad of Bull Ramos
13 - Hair Match

Blood Capsules 12-inch
01 - Blood Capsules
02 - Dub Capsules

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