3 Beads of Sweat are set to re-release ye olde Mountain Goats compilations on CD: Bitter Melon Farm, Ghana and Protein Source of the Future…Now! (listen to 3 sample MP3s).

“Well over 3 hours (81 songs!) worth of tape hiss, wheel grind, tales of love, wanderlust, relationships-going-nowhere and ancient history.”

Related: the Mountain Goats WFMU session MP3s from 10/19/00 (including a cover of Radiohead’s No Surprises).