Staff Reviews

The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ

Review by Benjamin Bland

A fun, but deeply human, record.»

Buy now from:

'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.
description from www.roughtrade.com