Merge Records is generously offering up its free Winter Sampler Download HERE.

As listed below, the Merge sampler consists of some of the best music put out this year (in particular the Buckner, Mountain Goats, and Friedberger offerings).  Check ’em out.

Hospitality – “Betty Wang”
Richard Buckner – “Traitor”
Lambchop – “Gone Tomorrow”
Crooked Fingers – “Bad Blood”
Superchunk – “Driveway to Driveway”
The Mountain Goats – “Estate Sale Sign”
Eleanor Friedberger – “My Mistakes”
Imperial Teen – “Runaway”
Archers of Loaf – “Harnessed In Slums”
Wild Flag – “Romance”
Stephin Merritt – “Rot in the Sun”
The Rosebuds – “Go Ahead”

And while you’re over there streaming/downloading, check out the Christmas offerings of She & Him and Julian Koster (as to the latter, it is finally what we’ve all been waiting for: O Holy Night performed on saw–we are now ready for the rapture).