Jonathan Coulton is a singer-songwriter with an interesting range of songs and fairly big nerd following. He is also a believer in the Creative Commons Licenses as am I*, so you can try quite a lot of his music then give him some cash if you like the songs. Note, this only works if people pay him so if you do like his songs please do pay up. For a taster I recommend ‘Skullcrusher Mountain‘, the sensitive supervillain’s song. You can also check a video made for it by a fan using World of Warcraft below:

I am also a big fan of his cover of ‘Baby Got Back‘, but you have to pay up front for that one. Before you try it here is a video of him doing the song live (the album version is tighter, but the video isn’t bad):

* Only difference is he is selling something worth paying for…

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