Josh Ellis has his Creative Commons licensed album Love Songs for Bastards available for sale and download through Bitpass, a newly unveiled micropayment system that has the potential to actually stick around and become useful.

Quick LSfB review: Brings to mind cigarettes and liquor, cornfields and dusty highrises. I feel like I should really be hearing it on a beat up record player or a Wim Wenders soundtrack.

You can buy Josh's album for $3.50, or individual songs (try Berlin Floor Show) at 50 cents a pop. Scott McCloud is also on board, selling his new comic for for a quarter.

I can see this really taking off for musicians and pornographers.

About a month ago Josh mentioned the idea of moving Kuro5hin to the micropayment system, and while there are several viable ways we could have gone about doing that, the K5 readership would've probably lynched us and burned our houses down. Hell, simply changing the logo a couple years ago was a pretty traumatic event. Personally, I don't feel that it'd be right for K5 anyway, as the site already has its own methods of bringing in revenue, but I'd love to see an outfit such as Salon or Nerve take a shot at micropayments.