You're ALL getting mixtapes

December 1, 2010 1:11 PM

Midwest label Suburban Sprawl puts out a CD of X-Mas music every winter. They've collected the last eight years of them here. Highlights include The High Strung, The Hard Lessons, and the common lament, "Santa Just Crashed Into My House and He's Drunk as Fuck."
posted by klangklangston (16 comments total)

Winner.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:21 PM on December 1, 2010

Nice.
posted by Sailormom at 1:27 PM on December 1, 2010

the next 30 days are going to feel really silly.
posted by The Whelk at 1:28 PM on December 1, 2010

Klang, dig the post title.

This should be fun.
posted by PROD_TPSL at 1:34 PM on December 1, 2010

The Paincakes — Santasweatlive is genius in its wrongness.
posted by klangklangston at 1:40 PM on December 1, 2010

It would be cooler if they weren't all holiday songs. But then I guess that's the whole point.
posted by slackdog at 1:53 PM on December 1, 2010

Wow, Thanks for posting! I've been (co-)facilitating this and contributing almost every year. Pretty thrilled to see it posted in the blue!
posted by adamkempa at 2:11 PM on December 1, 2010

You've got fans! Kattalus just told me that I barely beat him to posting it.

(I used to write for Current and loved the Suburban Sounds X-Mas samplers. And I've still got a copy of an EP that has some Saturday Looks Good To Me and Rants tracks that I haven't ever seen anywhere else.)
posted by klangklangston at 2:29 PM on December 1, 2010

(Your first link has one too many http://'s)

Checking this out now. Thanks OP!
posted by schleppo at 2:30 PM on December 1, 2010

Fantastic! We have an off-beat holiday party every year. This will make a perfect playlist.
posted by ob at 2:59 PM on December 1, 2010

Good catch, Schleppo. Thanks. (Flagged for mods.)
posted by klangklangston at 3:04 PM on December 1, 2010

Hi Klang, what genre of music would you say this is? Thanks,
posted by smoke at 3:59 PM on December 1, 2010

It's a whole bunch but mostly indie rock, indie pop and folk, with a bunch of silliness thrown in.
posted by klangklangston at 5:13 PM on December 1, 2010

Can anyone recommend a site that will play all the mp3s on this page? I thought that yahoo player would do it but it's down right now.
posted by daHIFI at 8:47 AM on December 2, 2010

You can use a download plugin to grab all the mp3s at once (though I try not to do that because I know it totally torques servers). I don't know of anything that will take all the links and make a streaming playlist — if you find it, lemme know, because it sounds awesome.
posted by klangklangston at 8:49 AM on December 2, 2010

Nice. I make a mix for friends of alternative holiday music each year, and some of these might help.
posted by Theta States at 9:30 AM on December 2, 2010