Blargh. One of our local radio stations here in Birmingham has started playing Christmas music 24/7 as well. Thank God I have XM in my car!

well it is the christmas season.

Yeah the heck with Thanksgiving, lets skip straight to Christmas.

It's like they want us to be depressed as soon as humanly possible. They're playing Christmas music at my Walmart as well, and I had to run away with my fingers in my ears, saying "LA-LA-LA-LA..."

They were playing Christmas music in the Starbucks where I was drinking my free coffee today.

Is there a big library of Thanksgiving music that is being overlooked?

When I worked at Best Buy in 2002, the Christmas music started on Nov. 1, but then they took it off for a few weeks, and I think they started it back up right after Thanksgiving.

Some people hate Christmas music. I love it. But I absolutely refuse to listen to it until after Thanksgiving, and even then maybe not, if Thanksgiving comes particularly early.

One holiday at a time, please. They might be trying to sell Christmas presents, but the rest of us have turkeys to worry about first.

Ahh.. yet another reason to avoid Wal-Mart. Let's tak it one holiday at a time people. No christmas music for me until we get past the big turkey dinner.

They are trying hard to get us to spend money this year. They know a lot of folks were looking to scale down their x-mas spending due to the unstable economy. I have this fantasy about everyone boycotting the Holiday.

Why do the mini-greeters appear to be clapping in all the Christmas Village Walmarts? "Congratulations, you're a consumer whore?"

Once Target starts this, I'll have to avoid it until at least after Thanksgiving. Though I do my grocery shopping elsewhere and anything non-grocery at Target or internet anymore to avoid the people that shop at our Walmart...I just can't stand it.

Lord and Taylor started as well. I heard it this weekend at the one in Chevy Chase, MD.

They were playing Christmas music at the Barnes and Noble I went to yesterday. Between that and not having any of the books I was looking for, yeah, not really feeling the need to go back there anytime soon.

I took my son on Saturday to spend his Halloween money from Nana at WalMart and heard the Christmas music playing and boy I was IRRITATED! I even said something to the drone working the floor and got a mumbled answer before they shuffled off...frigging retailers

So does this mean if I get an email saying WalMart won't mention Christmas, it's BS?

The sad thing, it's never stuff like this:

@MissPeacock: I was in our Super KMart years ago at midnight Halloween night, and sure enough, at the stroke of midnight, they started with the Christmas crap.

And if you're an XM subscriber you won't be happy with the channel changes they're expected to announce tomorrow...

@jsnorcal: You hear it for 30 or so minutes. They cannot escape it until 12/26....

Wife called me from walmart the other day, and the first thing I said was "is that Christmas music?" I thought it was before Nov 1st when this happened, but now that I think about it, it was Saturday, so it was right on the money.

Garden Ridge ( giant garden/home goods store) in Chesapeake, VA had their Christmas crap out in JULY. Yep. That's right.

Its all a conspiracy to make you buy that Ipod so you can listen to your own music on that instead of the store's Christmas music!

Target in Massachusetts was playing Christmas music ON Halloween as I was shopping for a costume.

@WoodyXJS: To be fair, I don't know any Thanksgiving songs. Or Veterans Day songs, for that matter.

I went in to CVS this morning to see if I could score any 1/2 price Halloween candy. Too late. It had already been replaced by Christmas candy. So I just finished a nice bag of mint chocolate M&Ms.

Heh, got my dose of Christmas music at Lucky, a *grocery store* on Sunday. I was ready to shoot the place up.

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: See, and for hard-core liturgical Christians, we can't even do Christmas music until Christmas Day--anything earlier, it's Advent! It's just "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" for four weeks.

The internet radio station "soma" (San Francisco South of Market) notified its contributors today that it was offering not one, but TWO, channels of Christmas tunes starting today. Sigh...

Christmas music is one of the things I love most about the season. It doesn't bother me one bit :)

The Walmart in Olathe Kansas is playing Christmas music also.

@chrisjames: AND HOW!

Thanks imageshack

I generally don't like hearing Christmas music this early either. However, i will say i appreciate the fact that my local Walmart's are playing it low and the versions that's just the music, no singing. So it's not quite as irritating, yet. ;)~

Mine too! Southeastern Pennsylvania.

@SkokieGuy: The only one I can think of that's even mildly related is Over the River and Through the Woods. Or something...

Well, I don't know about Wal-Mart, but my free Starbucks today came in a red holiday cup.

Noticed this the other day at Walmart myself. Was in an aisle with the wife and I stopped mid-sentence, looked up and then just shook my head.

@jsnorcal: You think the drone enjoys listening to it all day? I'd mumble something too...

Yeah, I can confirm that the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market (grocery store) in Tucson had Christmas music playing on November 1. 91 degrees outside that day. I could feel Christmas in the air!

Same with my Walmart and Sams.

But my main complaint is that nobody has plain not-pre-lit artificial trees this year. They've been slowly disappearing over the post 3 years.

@MercuryPDX: I worked at Toys R Us right out of high school. The Christmas music started in mid-November if I remember correctly. It was honestly refreshing because it was better than hearing "Don't rock the boat" 12 times a day.

@SkokieGuy: There's The Best Thanksgiving Ever by the Dead Milkmen, and Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie. Both should be played all the time in stores, if you ask me.

I'm getting one of those Wal-Mart Christmas village stores, and next door I'll put the boarded up mom & pop store with no lights. Now, if only I can find a liquor store to add to the set up.

@TVGenius: ACK! Spill! What do you know???

I mentioned it to the cashier on Sunday night, she didn't seem happy about it either.

I work for a company that provides background music for many of the stores listed here. Most of our clients requested that holiday music begin on Nov. 1st, and not just some holiday songs here and there, but 100% holiday music from 11/01 to 12/31. They are trying to get everybody in the spending, er... holiday spirit asap. It's the bad economy. This is just one more way it will bite you in the ass.

@JohnDeere: Perhaps you were being sarcastic. Hopefully you were being sarcastic. It is not Christmas season. Christmas season does not begin just after Halloween. The current push to move Christmas shopping earlier and earlier each year makes be absolutely sick long before December 25th.

I was in a Loblaws grocery store here in Canada, and blaring away was christmas music. I made a horrid face when I recognised the tune, and I think some woman with a baby thought i was making the face at her. See what christmas music this early does to people???

Same story in Hooksett, NH. The morning after Halloween, they're playing Xmas music. And then the day after Xmas, you'll probably start seeing Easter garbage.

If only people didn't actually buy into it, it might stop.

@Jewlz4Prez: AWESOME

@Cwicseolfor: No, you forgot the intervening Valentines Day.