if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
Nine Inch Dick
by Lee
Ah, the joys of irony. Trent Reznor is broke.
NINE INCH NAILS’ TRENT REZNOR is suing his manager, claiming he had just $400,000 (£217,000) in cash, despite earning millions with his band.
The singer claims that John Malm duped him into signing a bad contract and claims that his former friend misled him into a deal which gave Malm 20 per cent of Reznor’s earnings. ...
In 2003, Reznor said, he asked Malm to tell him how much money he had.
The singer said that he was sent a financial statement that revealed he had at most $3 million (£1.6 million) in total assets and as little as $400,000 in cash.
Trent Reznor needs to promote his new CD to make some cash, so he agreed to play the MTV Movie Awards.
Eminem and Nine Inch Nails are booked to play the 2005 MTV Movie Awards.
The show will be taped on June 4 and is set to air on Thursday, June 9 on MTV. During the show and for the first time ever on television, Eminem will perform his song “A-- Like That.” Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails are scheduled to play the single, “The Hand That Feeds” from the latest NIN album, “With Teeth.”
Remember, this is a guy who won a Grammy in 1992 and refused to go pick it up because that wasn’t his scene. Now, 13 years later, he’s broke and trying to tap into that lucrative Eminem demographic. How proud he must be. But then, today, this appeared on his website.
Obviously MTV just wants to have an enjoyable show, but making his political feelings known in such a public venue, and pissing off a large chunk of his fan base, was obviously more important for Trent than trying to plug his album and make up the money that he had stolen from him by Malm. MTV isn’t just going to ban him from the show for suggesting the Bush picture, he obviously made it a deal-breaker, and MTV told him to go screw himself.
Anyone else find it ironic as hell that the song he was going to sing is called “Bite the Hand that Feeds”? What a fucking schmuck.
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He’s got a head like a hole…
it’s probably a stunt. he doesnt have to do mtv shit, looks like a maverick, and still gets publicity.
The frustrating thing about the “bite the hand that feeds” concept is it’s usually used to critisize more oppressive governments like communism.
In a democracy, the government doesn’t feed you ... they just give you the opportunity to feed yourself. Bush doesn’t claim to be anyone’s source of food, and he’s not trying to be a hero. Communists like to be their countries “providers”, and make people feel like they’re lucky for having the priviledge.
It’s insane how some people are trying to project Bush with the vices of a tyrant.
I’m making a prediction ... in 2008, all the liberals are going to start yappin’ about how Bush isn’t going to give up power, just like in SWIII.
The best thing Trent Reznor ever did was write a song for Johnny Cash to improve upon.
Dammit Lee! Ya got me all excited when I saw the title 9 inch dick. Geez what a letdown.
he had just $400,000
And all he wants is his very own South Pacific Island, but he won’t probably won’t get one for Christmas . . .
He sounds like a bonehead to me. Anyone who earns that kind of money and doesn’t keep track of it himself, so that someone else can rip him off has to be… a BONEHEAD!!!!
music and politics shouldn’t breed. trent’s still my favorite musician, but i wouldn’t want to hang out with him or anything.
I’m with you, catbat. NIN is and will likely remain my favorite artist. For the last year, since Trent put up links to Noam Chomsky’s website and MoveOn.org, I was terrified he’d turn into a System of a Down or Rage Against the Machine. You know, mediocre angry metal + preachy politics. Fortunately, he managed to pull off creating a loosely political album that isn’t preachy at all, and if you want to get a political interpretation out of it, like Star Wars, it could be interpreted in many ways. Any song on With Teeth that could be interpreted to be anti-Bush, could also be interpreted as anti-Michael-Moore-camp. I do know about TR’s personal opinions, so I know where his head was at when he wrote the lyrics, but unfortunately for him, he’s also a good artist, and he left it all open to interpretation.
Johnny Cash doing Hurt is amazing
Funny how Trent doesn’t mention his time in a synth-pop band back in the mid-80’s in Cleveland called the Exotic Birds. I remember him then, and he was a wanker then, and hasn’t changed a bit.
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hahaha. what a fucking douche bag. what kind of retard lets some cocksucker accountant/lawyer have reign over millions of his own dollars?? hes getting everything thats coming to him. faggot liberal. and to think i was a fan since pretty hate machine....