The good old Christmas album, much like Christmas itself, is mostly all about the money. Artists don’t pump out generic covers of carols because they love Christmas – they do it because Christmas albums are the literally the gift that keeps on giving for musicians, a near guarantee of continuous sales years after its initial release. Unless, of course, they’re crap. With December 25th fast approaching, we decided to look at the strangest, most unexpected Christmas albums around. It gets pretty weird.

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