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The Rolling Stones

posted 17 years ago by ccr1633
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Couldn't he just have hired the Rolling Stones for a 30 million dollar one night gig and ended the spree right there?

[–] mybindle 16 years ago

He has to get value for money.

"He has to get value for money."

Did he have to be concerned with fair market value when he "hired" someone to do a specified job?

ie: Spike was hired to do something wasn't he? Couldn't he have just paid Spike $30mil for one day's work as his "assistant"?

"Mother of God, what kind of terrorists are these?!" - The Happening

[–] SoTyred 16 years ago

This again raises the question of what is 'inherently valuable'. To some people , renting the Rolling Stones for a private gig WOULD be inherently valuable, since music is an art form. He would not have destroyed them, and had no assets.

He could have paid ABBA to do a reunion concert too :D.

**Skin that Smokewagon and see what happens!** Tombstone

[–] willydoe71 15 years ago

It sounds to me like mybindle may not like the Stones and was just being sarcastic.

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[–] MaximRecoil (4049) 5 years ago

Hiring big-time rock bands for free-admission public concerts would be the easiest way to spend the money, and it would be fun too. Spending 30 million on one band for one night might be against the rules because you'd be paying drastically more than the going rate, but hiring lots of them for a lot of concerts wouldn't break the rules.

Financing a movie with a $30 million budget would be an easy way to do it too, but that would leave you with an asset even if you made the movie public domain and made no profit off of it, i.e., the reels of film containing the movie.