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- Label
- Merge Records
- Released
- April 7, 2015
- Format
- Vinyl
- Color
- Black
- Condition
- New
- UPC
- 673855051611
About This Record
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
| 1 | Southwestern Territory | |
| 2 | The Legend Of Chavo Guerrero | |
| 3 | Foreign Object | |
| 4 | Animal Mask | |
| 5 | Choked Out | |
| 6 | Heel Turn 2 | |
| 7 | Fire Editorial | |
| 8 | Stabbed To Death Outside San Juan | |
| 9 | Werewolf Gimmick | |
| 10 | Luna | |
| 11 | Unmasked! | |
| 12 | The Ballad Of Bull Ramos | |
| 13 | Hair Match |
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