Millionaire punks

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10. Marky Ramone – $2 Million

Probably Spends It On: Leather Jackets, Depends

The long-running member of the Ramones is disappointingly low on this list. It looks like he probably doesn’t see a dime for any of the hundreds of thousands of Ramones t-shirts sold to people who probably couldn’t name a single member of the band if they weren’t part of the classic logo.

9. Lars Frederiksen – $10 Million

Probably Spends It On: His Own Tattoos, Suspenders(?)

This longtime Rancid guitarist also owns a share of an extremely popular tattoo parlor called NYHC Tattoo (founded by Vinnie Stigma of Agnostic Front and Jimmy Gestapo of Murphy’s Law) as well as the Skunx Tattoo Parlour in Japan. He’s also a tattoo artist on the side. Guess there’s a decent amount of money in the tattoo industry – sorta makes the forehead tattoo a little more understandable. Maybe.

8. Tim Armstrong – $13 Million

Probably Spends It On: Tim Timebomb studio sessions

The co-founder of Rancid, Operation Ivy, Transplants, and Hellcat Records certainly has earned his fair share of the punk market. Adding to his brand (and wallet), Gretsch makes a signature Tim Armstrong style guitar, which Tim surely sees some dough from.

7. Davey Havok – $20 Million

Probably Spends It On: Suits, Acting Classes

The AFI frontman might have once been a poor East Bay hardcore singer but let’s face it, the dude is a modern day rock star now. Music videos on MTV, major record labels, hell, he’s even appearing in movies alongside Rob Low – yeah, nobody saw that movie but you get the picture. The elitist might scoff at calling AFI punk these days but selling albums is their business, and business is apparently good.

6. Ian Mackaye – $25 million
Probably Spends It On: Not drugs

Best known for his tenure as the vocalist of Minor Threat and vocalist/guitarist of Fugazi, as well as being the co-founder of longtime DIY label Dischord Records, Ian Mackaye has accumulated quite a hefty sum over the years. How exactly that’s possible, we have no idea.

5. Billie Joe Armstrong – $55 million

Probably Spends It On: Eyeliner, giant posters of himself

We are talking Green Day here, which we can all agree is a mainstream band. 55 million can’t be a surprising number. They’ve got their own musical for crying out loud. The whole smashing guitars on stage as a fuck-you though seems a little less defiant when you realize how many more he can buy.

4. Dexter Holland – $65 million

Probably Spends It On: Airplanes (he has a pilot’s license), Making Hot Sauce (does anybody actually eat Gringo Bandito?)

The Offspring frontman has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology and was a Ph.D. candidate in Molecular Biology at the University of Southern California, before abandoning it to focus on The Offspring. The dude is no idiot. I’m sure he’s got a million things going on that we don’t even know about but fronting a mainstream punk act, owning Nitro Records in the 90′s (when punk labels could actually make money) and starting a hot sauce company are pretty strong indicators that ol’ Dexter has a lot of zeroes appended to his net worth.

3, 2 &1: Blink 182

Barker Probably Spends It On: Tattoos, Not Plane Tickets

Delonge Probably Spends It On: Making Angels & Airwaves Movies

Hoppus Probably Spends It On: Football (of the Soccer variety) Tickets, Whatever Else Brits Spend Money On (he lives in London now)

Not surprisingly Blink 182 members are making bank. Aside from the mainstream success of their primary band all these dudes have musical side projects that have seen gained them more popularity (some more than others) and surely more dough. And let’s not forget their forays into film and/or television (Barker on his own reality show “Meet The Barkers”, Hoppus had a show on Fuse, and Delonge has his Angels & Airwaves feature films, though I’m not sure anybody went and saw them) . Mark and Tom co-own two companies (Atticus and Macbeth Footwear) and Hoppus does a lot of production work for other bands. Basically, the rich get richer. Mark Hoppus and Tom Delonge each have an estimated net worth of $60 million, and Travis Barker has an approximate worth of a whopping $85 million.

Honorable Mention: Fat Mike ($$$$???)

Probably Spends It On: BDSM Gear, Drugs

While we were unable to find any good estimates for the legendary Fat Mike of NOFX, he is the front man of one of the most well known bands in punk and co-owns punk rock’s most darling record label. He also sold his house for $5 million in 2008 so we’re pretty sure the dude isn’t broke, and most likely deserves a spot somewhere on this list.

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*Estimated net worths were obtained from TheRichest.org and CelebrityNetWorth.com, who acquire figures from publicly available information including salaries, real estate holdings, divorces, record sales, royalties and endorsements.

 

Wtf ? Do you seriously think pop punk turns kids into anarchism ? It's just some music, nothing to do with politics.

The rest is just bullshit argument. Punk rock is not a fucking job.
I could make thousands of dollars monthly with this website and with the t-shirt shop but i give everything to political causes.

Can't believe i'm reading this capitalist argument on an anarchist forum...

 

his label

 

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvH5wzmOmk[/video]

 

So, if i understand correctly, you are an "anarchist" and you think people have the legitimate right to become millionaire bourgeois by playing music ?
How can an anarchist defend bourgeois right to be millionaire ? Especially when that fortune was built on selling-out a sub-culture music genre that is supposed to be anti-system, rebellious and underground ?

I also don't understand how pop-punk can be a "gateway to better punk music". Pop-punk isn't politised, so people who discover pop-punk won't start listening to anarcho-punk just because of that. Also, anarcho-punk and pop-punk is very different sound, so even if one likes the sound of pop-punk doesn't means he will start listening to anarcho-punk since it is a very different musical sound.

And on top of all, everything is in the name : POP-punk is trendy because it is POP. People listen to it because it is trendy, fans like pop-punk because MTV tells them to do so. The fans will just keep following the next trendy band as the year goes. Once Blink 182 isn't trendy anymore, they will just jump on the next bandwagon and start liking Simple Plan or other commercial BS band because it is the new thing that's trendy.

There is an huge difference between "getting a little bit of money" and earning millions...

 

That's like saying "it ain't McDonalds fault if they are selling millions of bugers and became millionaires out of it".

No one forced them to become millionaires, they could have given their albums for free on their website, or lower the sale cost, sell less merch and stop transforming punk into a product, etc. They could have also donated money to political causes like a real punk would do.

 

Probably just because the author didnt find infos on their wealth