Thoughts on Christmas Music

I know there are people who are listening to Christmas music now, those that were listening in July, and even those who never stop listening to Christmas music. My feelings on Christmas music is that it ought not to be played until after eating on Thanksgiving. I believe my firmness about Christmas music season comes, at least in part, from my years working at a cafeteria in college, especially my time as a cashier; when Christmas music was played at the cafeteria it meant that I was hearing it in four hour shifts, every other day for the season. I know that there are people who love this, the station that was usually played at work plays Christmas music non-stop for 100 days until Christmas. I'm not against Christmas music, I quite enjoy it, I'm against the Christmas music that gets played on the radios. There really aren't that many Christmas songs, at least not played on the radio, there are hundreds of versions of these songs, but in essense there aren't that many songs and they get repetative. I took a tally of song frequency one year while at work. There were songs that I think were played four times an hour on average. That's a lot. My second problem with a lot of the songs that really have nothing to do with what Christmas is really about; you may love "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas" and "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" etc. but I find them annoying and without purpose.
I do love Christmas music though and our family's library of Christmas music which is not so frequently played on the airwaves. We're in November now and it's tempting to just break out the Christmas music, I'll hold off a little longer. I think that Thanksgiving is a great holiday, a great time to reflect on the blessings we have in life, not just food, football or shopping. It makes me sort of sad that Thanksgiving gets shoved aside by the commercialism of Christmas.