i actually shuffled like twenty-four pokemon in & out of my "party" during my scarlet playthrough, but this was the final squad of very special guys that Beat the Champ is the fifteenth studio album by The Mountain Goats, released on April 7, 2015 on Merge Records. The release is a concept album on professional wrestling, though frontman John Darnielle has stated that several of its songs are "really more about death and difficult-to-navigate interior spaces than wrestling."