I honestly don't know! It seems to be a combination of his most popular songs and a few oddballs.
This was useful a couple weeks ago: a friend of mine who is strapped for cash was able to download a generous selection of Coulton tracks guilt-free. He has been successfully converted into a fan.
It does explain why some of them are free--and perhaps even why the most popular songs are free--but does not completely answer the question of why this particular selection of songs, and not some other set.
My understanding is the free ones include all the ones where Jonathan used content he didn't have the copyright to use, and ones he felt didn't merit payment (too short, not good enough), I'm sure there are other reasons too. I haven't actually looked art what the free ones are in years.
Technically, all his songs (except Still Alive) are free, you just need to get the others from his blog posts.
Or if they're not linked from blog posts (so pre-Thing-a-Week stuff) you can legally get them for free from some other fan or through that trick JoCo mentioned in a blog post once. Hooray for Creative Commons!
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This was useful a couple weeks ago: a friend of mine who is strapped for cash was able to download a generous selection of Coulton tracks guilt-free. He has been successfully converted into a fan.
chicazul, I think you've just answered the question "why these particular songs are given a free download link..."
Methinks I am a bit too pedantic. (:
Technically, all his songs (except Still Alive) are free, you just need to get the others from his blog posts.