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One disc are covers by the likes of Flaming Lips, Beck, Mercury Rev, Eels etc.. and the other side is the same songs by Johnston. It's a good way to get into him I guess. If not that then this is brilliant:

 

I bought that before Christmas as an intro to Johnston myself, but it's not arrived yet :(

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I only have 'Songs of Pain' and just can't get past the poor sound quality (this coming from a lover of early Mountain Goats). Are all of his albums as, ahem, "low-fi"?

 

Johnston began recording John Lennon- and Beatles-inspired music in the late 1970s on a $59 Sanyo monaural Boombox, singing and playing guitar, piano, and chord organ. He gave tapes of his music to anyone who would take them and created the comic book-inspired art that usually accompanied his recordings.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Johnston#Music_career

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I'm kinda worried about the Discovered Covered comp... It is the finest into to his work but we haven't been able to reorder it for the store, and Amazon has a long wait for it as well. There is an affordable single disc "best of" that just came out.

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