[mb-users] "Disc #" v. "Vol. #"

[Lauri Watts]

On 12/7/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Chris Bransden <chris at whenironsattack.com> wrote:
> > the fact that they were initially available separately outweighs all as far
> > as i'm concerned. BoxSetNameStyle strikes again :) they should be
> > represently solely as "Songs for Christmas, Volume I" and so forth.
>
> As mentioned in the edit, I have yet to see a source for this. As I
> understand, these were recorded and passed around by Sufjan to family
> and friends, but were not publicly available.

Confirmed by the label page:
http://www.asthmatickitty.com/music.php?releaseID=63

"As some of you may or may not know, for the past few years, as a
holiday tradition, Sufjan has embarked on an extraordinary experiment
to record an annual Christmas EP. It started in 2001, the year of
Epiphanies, and continued onward (skipping only 2004), culminating
into an odd and idiosyncratic catalog of music that has only existed
in the Asthmatic Kitty archives (and on a number of file sharing
sites)."

These were never publicly released standalone. I don't personally
think the fact they leacked onto the p2p sites counts.

-- 
Regards,
Lauri Watts