U2 joins the middle-aged establishment

U2 sold out a long, long time ago. That's healthy, everybody sells out sometime (except maybe Gus Hall) – but there's selling out, and then there is wallowing in middle-aged greed and unabashed contempt for the people who ultimately give them their money, as does U2's manager in an official statement on behalf of the group. I've long since stopped paying to go to their shows, and the discs I bought in the last century sit at the back of the cabinet, tired and irrelevant; but ever humble, Bono believes that U2's music will "last 100 years":

"You know I'm still hungry," said the 45-year-old winner of 14 Grammy awards. "I still want a lot out of music."

a lot... of money. That explains the weird simultaneous push for copyright extension and debt relief: Bono wants the third world wealthy enough to keep him fat on royalties until the next ice age.