Digging through my collection of CDs last night, I found a cheerful album to go along with my upbeat mood at the end of a busy day. In keeping with the trend of ever-earlier starts to the holiday season, it happened to be an album of Christmas tunes performed by Andre Rieu, and I couldn’t muster the willpower to keep it on the shelf for another day, let alone another month. I make a poor example for those aspiring to self-restraint in this age of seasonal excesses.
So you’re saying you threw it in the bin?
I was doing my happy dance in the office on Tuesday because I saw the announcement for the 2006 Carols for a Cure CD
No, I loaded it in my CD player and listened to the music as I was falling asleep. It’s an album I already had in my collection, but I hadn’t planned on bringing it out from long-term storage this early in the year.
This reminds me - I need to stock up on earplugs for the upcoming season. Yeah, call me Scrooge. 
You’re not alone, Prophet. I understand that as it gets close to the holiday, people are going to want to hear more and more holiday music, but it’s been starting earlier and earlier, lately. I can’t take two months of Jingle Bell Rock.
Soon enough, there actually will be a year-round Santa store like the one that was invented as a joke in the Onion’s Jean Teasdale columns a while back.
Here’s a list of year round Christmas stores:
Uhhh, I think confessional stuff such as the OP usually goes into the Pit…
Also, there’s a year-round Christmas ornament store in New Orleans Square at Disneyland.
That list might represent a thousandth of the year-round christmas stored in the US. I’ve personally seen them in Highlands, NC; Bar Harbor, ME; Provincetown, MA (2); and about 30 other places. They are everywhere in tourist-driven communities.
My Christmas cassettes and CDs stay in the trunk with my decorations so I can resist the temptation, and they feel like new again each year. The exceptions are Handel’s Messiah and the Messiah: A Soulful Celebration which stay out because I also need them for Easter.
The pop station around here starts full-time Xmas tunes Thanksgiving PM and doesn’t stop until Xmas night.
Indeed, a very poor example. Eek, it’s not even Hallowe’en yet and you want to start Christmas. :eek:
Write out a hundred times “must try harder”.
Or we could just, I don’t know, throw you to the dogs or something.
I just want to say that the Soulful Celebration version rocks my world!
I have 35-40 Christmas albums. Last year, I played only a handful of them. It was always sorta strange that I loved Christmas music so much; I was never heavily into Christ. I think it’s interesting how many Jewish performers have recorded Christmas albums.
I never have played Christmas music before Hallow’e’en.
I usually do a couple sometime in the middle of the summer, and my kids get disgusted. I’ve been very sternly told that I may not play them now, until after Thanksgiving dinner. So I’m keeping them secret. 
Hey, these are my favorite songs. Why can’t I listen to them during the year?
Me too. It’s in the car right now.
I’m eagerly awaiting (much to supervenusfreak’s chagrin) the beginning of the 24-hour Christmas programming on the radio stations here. Only another 6 weeks…
Every time I listen to it I hear something new to appreciate. Unfortunately I was playing it loud on Saturday night before Easter (after a particularly lovely Vigil service) and while it was only 10 PM, my landlords called to ask me to turn it down. :mad: I must break out my good earphones.
Christmas anything should be banned until after Thanksgiving. Banned! Don’t you realize by elongating the Christmas season by starting this stuff early you’re diluting its potency? 
(some how Christmas and potency in the same sentence seems dirty)
I was driving through my neighborhood and I saw someone had xmas lights up. For a second I thought they must be Halloween lights but who the heck has herd of Halloween lights?
There are definitely pumpkin, ghost and bat string lights out there. Must light the way to your door! 