http://xmas.asthmatickitty.com/
Sufjan Stevens is busy working on a very special gift right now, for a very special person. And in the spirit of Christmas, that person will give Sufjan a similarly special gift.Here's how it works: write an original Christmas song, record it, and send the song to us (see below for instructions). Asthmatic Kitty will pick a winner, and that person will trade rights to their song for rights to Sufjan's song.Just like a gift exhange, Sufjan's song becomes your song. You can hoard it for yourself, sell it to a major soft drink corporation, use it in your daughter's first Christmas video, or share it for free on your website. No one except Sufjan and you will hear his song, unless you decide otherwise. You get the song and all legal rights to it. We get the same rights to your song.
Here's how it works: write an original Christmas song, record it, and send the song to us (see below for instructions). Asthmatic Kitty will pick a winner, and that person will trade rights to their song for rights to Sufjan's song.
Just like a gift exhange, Sufjan's song becomes your song. You can hoard it for yourself, sell it to a major soft drink corporation, use it in your daughter's first Christmas video, or share it for free on your website. No one except Sufjan and you will hear his song, unless you decide otherwise. You get the song and all legal rights to it. We get the same rights to your song.
So, who's entering?
Additionally, what are the best Christmas songs?
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Thursday, 15 November 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Sufjan working on some next level Tom Sawyer fence painting shit right here.
― John Justen, Thursday, 15 November 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
haha
― Jordan, Thursday, 15 November 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Some people were telling me about this and I was like, this is a ripoff, if I win, I KNOW my song was good because it won the contest, but I get a song of completely unknown quality in exchange. Then the guy was like, yeah, but if you put that Sufjan song on iTunes for a dollar a download you could pay off your student loans by next week. It sounds like a good deal if you can handle writing a Christmas song.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 November 2007 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, I wrote a song anyway. Sufjan is going to totally lose his shit when he hears it.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Monday, 19 November 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Here is a great Xmas song, but obviously you can't sell it to Sufjan.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 19 November 2007 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link
or barter it.
It's a trap, b/c the Sufjan song is actually about raping infants.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
I think my song is probably better than Sufjan's. But I should be thanking him because I probably won't win and then I've just got this sweet song that he made me write.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Two boxed sets of Xmas songs is overwhelming. Can anyone list the best 10-20 tracks? Much as I'd like to dominate the stereo for 6 hours at my in-laws, I'd better keep it more succinct.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link