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February 4, 2008

Quitters

Written by Girth McDürchstein on February 4, 2008 11:45 AM
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Everyone’s been making a huge deal about the band quitting, and it needs to stop. I’m here to set the record straight, people.

First of all, no matter what Carl says about them nobly quitting because I screwed over some “innocent” people to ensure we’d get booked, it’s not true. Yes, it is true I screwed them over, but they weren’t innocent; yes, the reasons why I screwed them over are true, but I think you’ll agree they’re more than valid. But either way, this isn’t why they quit.

So why did they? Answer: money. These money-grubbing assholes don’t care about our art. They are all hopped up on the fact that Wooster’s taking 50% off the top, Lacey gets 10%, Herc gets 15%, which leaves us with 25% of the profits to split evenly. (This doesn’t even count merch, which we still get 75% of!) They’re just a bunch of complainers, still smarting because our last tour actually cost us money, and for this one we’ll be making less than we ever have. One of Mikey’s grievances is that, once you average all the costs of touring and the time it’ll take, it’ll average out to about $2/hour for him.

So fine, he can go back and slave away at a warehouse. Two bucks an hour is a long way from literally paying to play, like we did in the beginning and he did all through college in his shitty fucking band, Dust Storm. Fuck those assholes. Fuck them all. I don’t need them. I have me. I have Margo on keyboards and backing vocals. I have Renal on the tambourine. What else do I need?