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21 Post author: taryneast 06 January 2015 10:11AM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 07 January 2015 09:46:32PM 0 points [-]

There were two musicians who burned a million British pounds.

People's reaction: WTF?

Comment author: lmm 11 January 2015 12:56:39AM 1 point [-]

That's long struck me as rather tragic. They tried to turn a million quid (mostly received from a novelty number 1 hit) into being respected artists, first by nailing it to a board and so on, and eventually by burning it. But that's not how art works.

Comment author: eeuuah 17 January 2015 08:29:35PM 0 points [-]

they're also on record as having really regretted doing it

Comment author: Kuaiyu 04 April 2016 02:12:57AM -1 points [-]

I second the tragic-ness: That's 790 lives counting inflation.