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[kevin_sitek]

Have I been under a rock over the past few years, or did Christmas decorations start exceptionally early this year?  As in, there's no more Thanksgiving anymore.  We go straight from Halloween to Christmas now, and stores don't even bother putting up fall or Thanksgiving stuff.
It's all in the name of selling more products: Christmas is much more

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[electricpoopie]

just as badly.
christmas music begins the first day of november.
i nearly cried at the shittyness.

[kevin_sitek]

UNLESS
it's Sufjan's new five-disc Christmas project, coming out on Tuesday =]
And if you haven't heard it yet... it rules so hard.
I got it last year, when it was just songs floating around the internet that Sufjan had recorded for friends and family and given to them as Christmas presents. I love everything on it.

[electricpoopie]

um.
yeah.
no, it's all shitty bad country pop christmas songs.
vomtacular.
anyways. lets all have a very sufjan christmas.

[kevin_sitek]

Wait... the Sufjan is shitty bad country pop christmas?
or the stuff you hear in stores?

[tsuzuku_]

personally, christmas decorations and the feeling my house has during that season is what christmas is for me...i stopped looking forward to the presents a couple years ago.

i love my house when it's all decorated :P

[kevin_sitek]

I'm more saddened by corporate Christmas, like abusing Christmas in order to sell more coffee makers and ankle socks. If decorations make you and your family feel better and warmer inside, then awesome! That's what they should do. Christmas (and however you chose to celebrate it) is supposed to make people happy and love each other and feel good.

I only have a problem when companies market Christmas as a product or when people buy each other presents for no other reason than to exchange stuff. It's pointless and loveless. It doesn't do what Christmas should do, which is make people enjoy family and life.

[fairetaleending]

word. exploitation; there's america for you.

[as_we_speak]

lol

[zachary15]

What can I say? People like stuff(ing) more than they like turkey. Hence, Christmas rules supreme.

As a side note. It's not so much that stores have forgotten Thanksgiving decorations as you missed them a month ago (Costco is ON it, tell you what).

[left_burning]

i also noticed that many houses have their decorations already up,
i love thanksgiving, why the fuck doesn't anyone care about it anymore?!
and i have to agree, the sufjan christmas album is really good. i remember you sending it to me last year

[kevin_sitek]

The release on Tuesday has five discs, too. I think I only had three of them. I'm excited. Plus I think for the five discs, a huge booklet, and like stickers it's still only $17.