November is finally here, which means Thanksgiving, having Christmas everything crammed down your throat for the next month and half and last, and more relative to When In Doubt, Clap!, a number of bands are putting out albums of unreleased material and b-sides from previous albums. Included in the list of bands putting out albums full of not-so-new material during November are Copeland, The Format, The Killers, Thursday and Anberlin.
Coincidentally, three of these albums (with the exception of Kill The House Lights by Thursday and Sawdust by The Killers), a deluxe two-disc edition of U2's Joshua Tree and an album of material from Taking Back Sunday off of Tell All Your Friends will hit shelves on exactly the same day - Nov. 20.
Even though Thursday's album was released Oct. 30 and The Killers released Sawdust Nov. 13, you've got to wonder, what's the mysterious fixation surrounding this pre-Thanksgiving release date?
That's what I'd like to know. Was there some sort of contract time where they couldn't do anything with these songs after Thanksgiving or vice versa? I really don't know what the reasoning is, but I would love to find out.
