A lot of people think that I have a good Arnold Schwarzenegger impression. Most of these people are my dad, who dared me to make a CD of Christmas carols as sung by Arnold. He wanted this as his Christmas present. Slightly daunted, I set out in October to figure out how the heck I would do this.

Fortunately, I had a PowerBook. Macintosh computers are 100% super-perfect for making homemade anything: CDs, movies, whatever. It's a multimedia powerhouse. I obtained a copy of Apple Soundtrack Pro, a Griffin iMic, and one of those skinny computer microphones. I already had a bunch of symphonic Christmas music, fortunately. Over the course of a few days, I recorded voice tracks. I think they sound really good, even though I was using just a regular old computer microphone.

The recordings were made and composited in Apple Soundtrack Pro. I designed the cover art in Adobe Illustrator. The album is licensed under an attribution, non-commercial, share-alike Creative Commons license. This means that you can share this stuff all you want, provided you (1) don't sell it for money, (2) cite me (Mark Wilson) as the author, and (3) provide the same license to all subsequent reproductions or remixes.

Download all 15 tracks of A Very Arnold Christmas as MP3s in a zip file (65 MB) in a torrent file. The MP3s have been encoded at 192 Kbps. Included are JPGs of the cover art.

Merry Christmas!

UPDATE: Thanks to Scott for creating a torrent of this file so that my bandwidth doesn't get shot. See, Hollywood? Watch as we use the BitTorrent network to legally distribute files!