As you may all know by now, Louis C.K just released his album, WORD: Live at Carnegie Hall by himself on his website. The show was recorded a while back before his Live At The Beacon Theater album.

In an email to his listserve the comedian stated why it took so long for the album to see the light of day.

Okay so there are two new products. They are both audio comedy specials. One is called…Louis CK: WORD – Live at Carnegie Hall. This is about an hour long and it’s a recording of a live standup show that I did at Carnegie Hall in November of 2010 as part of a national tour I was on entitled “WORD” I’ve had a lot of requests from people to release that show as a special or as a CD. I hadn’t done so because a lot of the material that I did on the WORD tour, was in the second season of my show “LOUIE” on FX. But I decided since it’s never been released as an entire show, and some of the material was not on my show, I’m releasing this now. I’m giving you this long and boring explanation because, as most of you know, I release about an hour or more of new standup material every year and folks can count on seeing a new show every year. This is old material, so I don’t want to be a dick and pretend it isn’t.

He also announced that the audio of Beacon was now available, so if you purchased the video, you can get the audio as well. In addition, he negotiated a deal with HBO to release the audio of his first special Shameless. So lotsa Louis C.K. material for you to dig into.