A dilemma solved

A Charlie Brown Christmas

AAUGH Blog reader Mike saw me expressing ambivalence about whether to preorder the new $99.99 edition of the A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack just to get the liner notes booklet… and he noted something that I missed: the same publisher is offering a new one-CD deluxe version for a far lower price, and it has what appears to be the same set of liner notes for it!

Furthermore, Amazon currently has both the 5-disc version and the 1-disc version available for preorder cheaper than buying straight from the publisher. (Nothing wrong with buying from the publisher if you want to show your support, of course.)

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