NEWS: Everclear Singer Goes Broke!

MUSIC: Everclear Singer Goes Broke!

According to Portland newspaper The Oregonian, Art Alexakis singer of the band Everclear, owes $2.75 million in back taxes from 1999 - 2002, piled up $120,000 in credit card debt, and owes $230,000 to the Oregon Department of Revenue.

Let's take a moment to look at Everclear's record sales shale we?

So Much For The Afterglow, their biggest album from 1997 sold 2.3 million units. The predecessor from 1995 Sparkle and Fade sold 1.2 million. Not too shabby.

Then things started to go downhill ...

Most of the audience hung with them for the next album, Songs from an American Movie Vol. 1 sold a respectable 1.1 million but the Vol. 2 companion album released later in the year sold about a quarter of that with 292,000 in sales. Keeping with the trend, Best of Everclear sold 39,000 units.

Not to mention he divorced last year for the third time, so lets not forget about alimony payments, child support, etc ...

So yeah, don't expect to see Mr. Alexakis on Cribs anytime soon.

Misery will make for some new songs, he'll be just fine.

i love how news is really "not news". like who cares. how about this.
I just farted.

Heroin is expensive.

On a very basic human level I hope everything works out for the guy.

But, that being said, I seriously hope this means that Everclear will stop assaulting my ears with their shitty music.

oh, by the way i am broke too, and i didn't have to make any shitty music to get here.

In an unrelated story, a Chicago man is currently eating a piece of coffee cake.

In an unrelated story, a Chicago man is currently eating a piece of coffee cake.

In an unrelated story, a Chicago man is currently eating a piece of coffee cake.

that was such tiop neaws it had to be told 3 times!

Time for another greatest hits CD.

He was in Lawrence last year trying to tour as a solo acoustic act. He managed to scam a lot of people into showing up for the show, but happily I wasn't one of them.

..I will buy you a big house way up in the....

I hear they're hiring at the Target down the street from me, and he's always welcome to crash on my couch.

that sucks.

Anyone who can accumulate nearly $3 million in back taxes in just three years is someone who made far too much money to entitle them to the tiniest scrap of my sympathy.

Today's word of the day is schadenfreude.

[Edited on Jan 14, 2005 1:12PM]

I'd still throw a fuck his way.... even if he is poor.

well you are in Vancouver, so just go over the bridge and look down by the river off Columbia Av. you might find him.

i guess thats what happens when you play shitty music no one likes.
at least he tried.

So what? I'm broke, and I don't even have the memory of three or four good years of money and groupies to look back on.

It takes a lot of motivation to blow at least $1mil/year on coke, h, and strippers. At least he's set goals for himself.

For some reason I can't say I'm surprised.

Supports my theory that Democrats don't know how to manage money:

Hey, atleast he lost 40 pounds. It won't make him rich, but he'll live longer!


What these dumb ass "rock stars" should be doing is gettting thier asses to money managers the second they score a recording contract. If they do ok, they can still manage the money properly and live a confortable lifestyle the rest of their lives.
Oh ya, I highly recommend this dumb ass never gets married again.

There was some movie I saw a while back where the rock star is trying so hard to think of angsty angry lyrics while he's sitting in his deck chair by his brand new pool at his mansion, and he can't do it.

I guess what I'm saying is that Art probably won't be having that problem any more.