John Darnielle is reissuing Mountain Goats cassettes from 1992 and 1993, as Exclaim! points out. Hound Chronicles and Hot Garden Stomp will be available as a compilation digitally or via CD through Shrimper on June 26.

The liner notes include this quote from Darnielle:

The songs you find on this compact disc originally appeared on two cassettes. To elaborate further about that—to say, for example, that the songs originally appeared 'on two cassettes that were released in ____ and ____'—would misrepresent the spirit of their time. These tapes did not have release dates. No one anticipated their coming into the world, and very few noticed or cared. All previous eras cross at some point into the territory of the unimaginable, and so it is with the days of tape-trading. The obscurity in which these songs were incubated and born and brought into their faint light is a state of being which has passed into history.

The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp

01 The Garden Song

02 Going to Wisconsin

03 Spilling Toward Alpha

04 Alpha Negative

05 The Torch Song

06 Untitled 1

07 The Cow Song

08 Untitled 2

09 Going to Chino

10 Standard Bitter Love Song #4

11 Going to Mexico

12 Lab Rat Blues

13 Going to Kansas

14 The Water Song

15 Going to Spain

16 Keep It on Your Mind

17 Pure Milk

18 Ice Blue

19 Water Song II

20 Sun Song

21 Going to Japan

22 Are You Cleaning Off the Stove

23 The Hot Garden Stomp

24 Love Hymn to Aphrodite

25 Beach House

26 Hello There Howard

27 Going to Norwalk

28 Fresh Cherries in Trinidad

29 Feed This End

30 15-i

31 Thanks for the Dress

32 Tell Me on a Sunday

The Mountain Goats perform "Love Love Love" on Pitchfork.tv's "Cemetery Gates":