Sufjan!

I checked on eMusic today and Sufjan Stevens' Christmas Songs five-album set is all online now, a week after it became available via CD. The slightly annoying thing is that the whole five-album set, spanning six years of Christmases (one of which had no album), has forty-two songs in it. Two more than my grandathered-in (as of three days ago) 40-download-per-month basic annual subscription will allow. So I'm going to have to get the Christmas albums in full over the next two months, but taht's okay. I'm only paying $10.50 for the whole bunch, anyway.

Then again, what you get for the extra $8.50 when you order the physical set is the actual discs, the actual album artwork, an essay, a "Santa Sufjan" photo, an animated comic, liner notes and Christmas stickers, as well as a few other things. But hey, my friend has all of that, and I can look at it when I please. I just really want the songs.

Speaking of eMusic, they're now offering a free download for every day to anyone who gets their toolbar (for Internet Explorer) and signs up with their service. The two downloads put up so far are pretty good, and show a bit of what's out there as far as the million tracks on eMusic go.

But anyway, yay Sufjan! I love, I repeat love Get Behind Me Santa. Would've paid 99 cents plus tax on iTunes for it...except that iTunes song quality is bad. But anyway, I really like Sufjan Stevens, and his Christmas albums are no exception.