The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ [Vinyl] Shopify Collective Album and Song of the

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David had always intended to re-mix and repackage it

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The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ [Vinyl] Shopify Collective Album and Song of theBeat 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