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In case you didn’t catch this back in December, an apparently homeless man named “Mustard” recorded a pretty damn fantastic cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” on the sometimes controversial Opie and Anthony show, broadcast on XM Radio and Sirius Satellite.

Little-known fact: “Creep,” now one of Radiohead’s biggest hits, sold just 6,000 copies as a single in the U.K., as local media thought the song was too depressing to broadcast. The band was moving on to other projects when Israeli Army Radio became the first station to give it significant radio play. It took off from there, and Radiohead built a tour around the song, with Tel Aviv the first city they played outside of the U.K.

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