p.s. i have paid for my favorite songs already, and will definitely buy an album if you come to Canada sometime soon. But for now, i have no credit card, and want more of your music.

p.s.s please put your new stuff on iTunes.

So theres another one.

But yes, its a moot issue considering the music is FREE TO BEGIN WITH

Yes – you do make a fair amount of your music freely available, but then we can turn around and buy as we’re able to, which rocks! And we turn around and point all of our friends, family, coworkers, acquaintances, and so on and so forth.

“OMGZ I SUCH A 1337 H4X0R!! LOLOLOLOLOLOOOLOLO”–rianthefreak92

From now on, anytime I do anything that is legal, encouraged, and generally socially acceptable, I’m calling it hacking. I’m about to hack myself some lunch.

A couple of them are flying out to see you in SF later this month.

This is much better treatment than I give those affiliated with the RIAA or MPAA.

Can’t wait to head out to San Francisco for the DVD taping. The minutes just seem like hours…

Its Mardi Gras here and because its wild and wacky and people do things without thinking, I just did a thing with both Amazon and Paypal. I would have just done it through Amazon, but they wouldn’t let me do the thing for the number I wanted, How crazy is that? So I made sure the paypal thing worked. They both work! Happy Mardi Gras!

http://youtube.com/user/rianthefreak92

All artists need to do is make it more difficult to get the music free than to pay for it. Then people with more money than time will pay for it and those with more time than money won’t. I’ve been in both categories and I sleep well at night.

Oh, that’s right, I still have those pesky principles. Disregard prior Doomsaying.

Perversely, despite my mother of all people pushing his music on me for I don’t know how long, I was actually turned onto him by a band performing a cover of Re: Your Brains, as were at least two others, and I sincerely doubt they delivered a royalty kickback(wait, 6% of nothing, carry the nothing, minus the nothing, is still nothing, so they might have). As they put it “Every decade, a band needs a new zombie song”.

I love your music more than pie.

Expect me to be droppin’ some cash on ya in the very near future (as in, two weeks from now, when I get paid). =P

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/mp3/song name here.mp3

I’ll do anything! I’ll even throw rocks at that moron’s house.

I hate being a student-on-a-gap-year

Thanks.

I stole everything (naaah, download it ),
listen it,
paid everything (the whole stuff youhou!)
and listen them all again

and tell _Everyone_ to go to jonathancoulton.com ha !

you make some great songs. (ho, and many thanks for the french translated one “re: brains” , funny and catchy. great tunes)

ho and of course, I knew the portal song was by you. it was so.. “hey, It’s like Coulton’s song !” “-hu.. yes it’s by jonathan coulton” ” ! “

Also, we know your music is free, but we want to pay for it

If this failfag calls himself one of us, he is sadly mistaken. We would never waste our time with someone of such a lower intellect as this AIDS-ridden pedo.

Anonymous does not forgive.
Anonymous does not forget.
We are legion.

Dude, I think I’ve just talked myself into giving you another 20. Shiiiieeeeet.

Details here: http://blog.last.fm/2008/01/23/free-the-music

I’m really bad at math, but I reckon they already owe $335.80!

Don’t worry… next time you’re in Baltimore, I’ll drag everyone to come see you!

Z0MG!! teh 1337 H4X0R decided to H4X0R himself!! Now THAT takes some 1337 5K1llz.

And now I have a headache from trying to recall leet-speak.

Consider it fan art.

Great comments, everyone – both here and on YouTube!

^_^

In that spirit, I have to admit a few things.

1.) At your show in Houston, I heard you talking to some people after the show. I secretly memorized the conversation and posted it on the internets, in violation of Federal Wiretapping laws.

2.) I once hummed one of your songs in public, but changed it slightly so when people asked “Are you humming Jonathan Coulton?” I could throw my head back and laugh maniacally and say “Why no! I am humming a derivative work, and your precious Creative Commons license is powerless to stop me, MRUAHAHAHAHA!”

3.) I once saw two joggers and their dogs collide in the park. I laughed so hard, I spilled my double-shot extra milk no caff non-fat extra hot maciato latte on the side walk, then put the cup in the trash instead of the recycling bin.

God, that feels good to get off my chest.

Yes. JC.com is not a bodega, and not a mall. He sells songs for iPods smaller than mine. (…as if there were iPods smaller than mine!)

I mean, it’s not as easy as hacking JoCo’s site because in order to find the song you actually have to be able to spell.

Btw, my credit card requires me to make two purchases a month in order to maintain a 0%-for-life offer. I happen to love both your site & songs. As such, JC.com now receives $2/mo from me in return for two songs per month. It might not be much, but I’m happy to make you the beneficiary of this arrangement, instead of buying some useless drek at the local bodega each month.

Indeed a l33t haxorz of the highest quality and skill.

What’s really cool about JC’s approach is that he’s right – it’s worked, ne gets money, his name gets known by loads more people and the people who don’t pay (and _maybe_ will never pay) are outnumbered by the people that do.

I came, I downloaded, I listened, I came back, I paid, I listened a whole lot more.