Thanks to Liberty Music Store, it no longer can be that you can't buy this song using btc. (How's that for tortured syntax?) Bitcoin-buyable tracks, including the Rally Song, are now here!

I just looped the damn thing 23 times, and no movement. I guess 23 isn't the magic number. 

Thanks! It was originally going to have lyrics, but it just never sounded right with vocals.

Great find! I think you mean btctip.org rather than .com. Bitcointalk thread for the site is here.

I wish I would have read it as satire from the get-go, because it's definitely more enjoyable that way!  

I think the best bet really will be a paper wallet. Without a private key, you have no Bitcoin value, as all Bitcoins must be attached to addresses that are attached to private keys.

This site has a great process for printing some very nice-looking paper wallets that are good for handouts. They should be relatively easy to understand because people are used to the concept of paper money.

Not at all. I believe in the long-term viability of Bitcoin, and my song was composed in that spirit. I doubt we're ever going to see those single digits the proudhon song insists will be coming "soon" (since April of last year...).

Thanks wachtwoord! I hadn't made that connection, but you're right - those two verses perfectly express how I feel about Mt. Gox, apart from the losses depositors are suffering.

I'm hopeful that the civil rehabilitation process will get us some funds back. Gox's assets cover just over half their liabilities, so I think 30-45% recovery isn't out of the question.

Could've sworn I had one in there. Thanks for pointing that out!

I had (or optimistically, still have) Bitcoins in Mt. Gox. I signed up when they were the only exchange, and that's where a lot of my investment stayed. This is my reaction to the situation.

Mt. Gox Erupting

(I also considered calling it "Fuck You, Mt. Gox - The Musical.")

Lyrics:
What a great idea: start up a Bitcoin exchange
You've got one for trading cards, I'm sure it's pretty much the same
With security about as good as putting all our money in a closet in a cardboard box
And I'm the sucker who sat right down and signed up on Mt. Gox

Now there's yet another bug in your half-assed trading engine and the prices start to slide
And the wheels are just spinning cause the system's in a loop and I guess we're all along for the ride
The API is crashing and I wish that I could cash in but the whole damn thing is locked up
So let the pressure keep building until we can watch Mt. Gox erupt

Keep up the great PR campaign, you sure know how to communicate
The only thing you've ever had to say about anything was always too little too late
We're done being strung along it's time to show your hand and give up the bluff
Now we all know the cards you aren't holding we're gonna watch Mt. Gox erupt

But isn't it fun to watch Mt. Gox erupting
Finally self-destructing
She's gonna blow

And even though it's our money burning
At that price we're earning
One hell of a show

Blame DOS attacks and hackers for your bad business practices you aren't fooling anyone
The only service anybody wants from you any more is a complete withdrawal of funds
If you'd have fixed your shit six months ago you would've been six months behind
You had your chance to be number one now you can go stand with Ripple at the back of the line   
Are you talking to your lawyer? Are you talking to your priest? Should I be talking to the FBI?
If there's a heaven somewhere for great CEOs it sure as hell ain't where Karpeles will go when he dies
We've all seen the smoke and we've all heard the rumble, now the whole thing is blowing up
And even with the lava raining down on me I'm gonna laugh my ass off as Mt. Gox erupts

Seems like somebody's playing the Slump Song hard today, and it's not me.

Dropping all day, at 703 now... Yeah, I'd say it's time for the Slump Song!
http://orymh.bandcamp.com/track/the-bitcoin-slump-song

You much happy with these way!

1. Extract to folder as such C:\Users\YourUserName\DogeCoin with great ambition!
2. Run client. Close client. This for create of much other file!
3. In C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\Roaming\DogeCoin, newly presenting you to the filesystem dogecoin.conf when you make it text file WOW!
4. Inside with Notepad make dogecoin.conf beauty these words:
rpcuser=doge
rpcpassword=wow
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=192.168.*.*
rpcport=22555
server=1
daemon=1
addnode=162.243.113.110
addnode=146.185.181.114
5. Run client. Excite!

Many few more steps how solo dig!
6. Button very push "Dig".
7. Button very more millionarre push "Start Dig"!
8. Many profit WOW!

$365?!? I think somebody's been playing it on repeat for the last 24 hours straight.

That is freaking fantastic. Informative, catchy, and funny all at once.

Thank you! In most of my music (what's on Bandcamp and what I do with other groups), melody is very much not the focus. It's fun to challenge myself with a primarily melodic piece.

That very brief flute solo was performed by Chainsaw. Take a bow, Chainsaw!

For security, it's best not to store the bulk of your Bitcoins online. Ideally, they shouldn't be stored in a local client on an Internet-connected PC either. A good approach is to use a local client such as MultiBit (https://multibit.org/) or Electrum (http://electrum.org) for your "spending money," and an offline wallet for any Bitcoins you aren't actively using.

I have a few articles that walk through this in more detail. If you're interested, the best place to start is here: http://www.bit-buddy.com/bitcoin-wallet.html.

This depends entirely on what Bitcoin client you're using. If it's Bitcoin-Qt, then the wallet file is indeed named wallet.dat. You can recover it by reinstalling Bitcoin-Qt (which it sounds like you may have already done), and replacing your newly-installed wallet.dat with the wallet.dat from your backup. If it's a different client, the file name (and possibly the process to recover it) will be different.

Bitcoins have value only because people believe they do. This is true for most currencies, even government fiat currencies - they're only viable as long as people believe in the governments that back them.

Bitcoin is somewhat protected from inflation because there is an absolute limit to the number that will ever exist. There will never be more than 21 million Bitcoins total. As more and more people want to use Bitcoins, the value of each BTC will rise, because of the increased demand. That's the hope and the theory, anyway. We won't know for sure until we all wait and see.