Your Favourite Christmas Music Is Garbage Compared To This Swedish Charity Album Of Singing Goats

Next Friday, when you gather your family around giant plates of sweating meat, wrap coloured tissue paper around your head and force jokes which were originally intended for five-year-olds into each other’s faces, you’ll likely be soundtracked by at least one of three things:

1) Your grandma’s imaginary boyfriend, Michael Bublé.

2) The one song people still ask Mariah Carey to perform.

3) Kids’ movies everyone’s pretending to watch while trying to avoid talking to each other.

Or, you could have a good Christmas and instead choose to listen to a novelty album which is exclusively sung by goats and produced to raise funds for a Swedish charity. I’m not going to say you’re a bad person if you don’t do it, but I’m not not going to say it either.

Introducing All I Want For Christmas Is A Goat:

The album was released on YouTube and Spotify at the beginning of the month by the Swedish branch of the charity international development agency ActionAid. It features eight classic Christmas carols like ‘Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer’ and ‘White Christmas’ and it is way more entertaining than it has any right to be.

Though the album’s not raising funds directly — it’s released in full free online — it’s instead being used to raise awareness for one of the organisation’s donation programs. For around AUD$57 you can buy a goat for a struggling community in Malawi; a gift which will ideally become a self-sustaining source of both nutrition and income for the locals.

To highlight the seriousness of this initiative, here are the goats shrieking a very solemn version of ‘Silent Night’. It’s legitimately better than anything Bublé’s done and you can tell him I said so.

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Listen to the full album here: