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Originally Posted by demonrail666

.. is a very different thing to to them than it is to you or anyone else who isn't blessed with a self-inflating bank balance. When I was eleven I thought Madness were just like me. Then i realised that while they made videos in schools just like mine, dressed like me, and came from a similar background, beyond that, our realities were very different..

Originally Posted by demonrail666

But not being rich doesn't mean that they aren't financially comfortable, which I'm sure they are, especially when compared with most of the rest of us. Regarding their total record sales, from a quick search it would appear that all of their studio albums have gone either gold or platinum. Mix this with touring, merchandise, endorsements, etc and it's probably fair to say that, unless they're complete idiots, they should be doing OK. They have options. I mean, they can afford to move to a better area than the one they were maybe raised in. Whether they will or not is their choice. But it's a choice an awful lot of regular people quite simply don't have. How many Deftones fans dream of a life like theirs? How many members of the Deftones dream of having a life like a vast majority of their fans?

yeah, rich rock stars are just world famous for asking for money to cover their medical expenses..