I'm a big Mountain Goats fan. Great song. Seeing them at the M-Shop would have been amazing...
I think it was 2004 or so. It was awesome. The two friends I had convinced to go hated it and left.
I saw them at The Empty Bottle in Chicago in 2005. I have the best memories of that one, cause I got home from my internship on a Friday, took a nap, popped a red bull, and then made my way out to Ukrainian Village. I was 21 or so and it was the first time I'd really spent time outside of Iowa.
I went to go see them at the Gothic Theater in Denver a few years ago and the gf didn't like it and we both left. It's hard for a venue like that to compete with the M-shop or Empty Bottle.