The Mountain Goats
March 3, 2004
Knitting Factory
New York, NY

Source: AUD > battery box > Sony MD > Spin Doctor > CDR(m)
Transfer: CDR(m) > EAC (secure) > wav > FLAC [8]

1. Mole ^
2. Southwood Plantation Road
3. "rules for the set"
4. Slow West Vultures
5. International Small Arms Traffic Blues
6. Tallahassee
7. Linda Blair Was Born Innocent
8. The Young Thousands
9. Going to Queens
10. It Froze Me
11. Jaipur
12. Jenny
13. Cotton
14. Palmcorder Yajna
15. Quito *
16. See America Right *
Encore
17. The Mess Inside
18. Shadow Song
^ some mic noise during song, level adjustments at end of song
* w/ Jason from Manishevitz on drums

Here are the details on the source from the taper:
"As for how I recorded it; I used a Sony Mini Disc recorder (I forget the model number, 510?), a cheap pair of microphones that I got from Radio Shack over 10 years ago that have held up remarkably well, and a battery box that I got from soundprofessionals.com...I end up losing the digital-ness, because I end up transferring the recording to my computer using Spin Doctor.  That allows me to adjust the levels a little,
but not too much or it ends up sounding crappy."

The sound is remarkably good-warm and yet very crisp, anything but "crappy." There's some banter that's a little hard to hear at times, but that's rare. The music sounds spot-on.

Performance: A
Sound: A