Karma Houdini/Music

• Death Metal. No Seriously. Gore related songs never reveal that the murders getting any comeuppance. Each and every song ends with the killer continuing his crimes.
• Bob Dylan's song "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" tells the story of a wealthy white man who kills a poor black woman in 1960s Baltimore, and receives a six-month sentence in punishment.
• "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club.
• Billy Preston's 1972 song "Will It Go Round In Circles":

I got a story, it ain't got no morals
Let the bad guy win every once in awhile
I got a story, it ain't got no morals
Let the bad guy win every once in awhile....

• Johnny in Oingo Boingo's song "Only A Lad", who gets away with arson, theft, assault, and vehicular manslaughter because the judge believes it's society's fault he's such a psychopath. However, the narrator predicts - or at least hopes - that Johnny will be going to Hell when he dies.
• The narrator's father in Ayreon's "Day 16: Loser".

I had my fun, I'm going back to the place I don't call home
There's no one there who waits for me, but you won't hear me moan
My ex-wives all sue me, and with half my kids in jail
I'll still come out laughing, coz me? I never fail, loser!

• "Lay Me Down" by Dirty Heads is about a couple that robs a bank, shoots a sherrif who's chasing after them, then lives happily ever after drinking tequila on the beach.
• The narrator of the song "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence.