re: Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell retires after ‘chaotic’ onstage rant

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Their early contracts must have been shite. Otherwise they should be making thousands of dollars a day in royalties.

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I can never understand how some of these people don't retire with grace. Or how they go broke.

I was shocked to learn the other day that on the day Kurt Cobain died (April 5, 1994), he was already worth $50 million. Then, having died 13 years before with only 3 studio albums under his belt, when his song catalog was sold in 2007, the estate of Kurt Cobain was worth $450 million.