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Punks don’t like being offered large sums of money when it comes to the music they make. Take Rancid<\/a>, for example, they famously turned down $1.5 million from Epic to leave Epitaph in the mid 90s.<\/p>\n \u201cMy mom freaked out,\u201d frontman Tim Armstrong told the Los Angeles Times. \u201cShe didn\u2019t get it. I\u2019m like, \u2018Mom, it\u2019s not about money. It\u2019s about respect for the band, you know, \u2018cause this is what I do. I love my band so much.\u2019 She\u2019s like, \u2018What kind of thinking is that?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018I got this way of thinking from you!\u2019 She\u2019d never [cared] about money. It was always more about family and friends. She understands now.\u201d<\/p>\n The same goes for Fugazi<\/a>, obviously. The band was offered $10 million and their own subsidiary label to sign with Atlantic Records. You can only imagine that Ian MacKaye balked at the idea.<\/p>\n When Burger King were generating ideas to promote their Chicken Fries, no-one clearly told their advertising executives that real punks and money mix like oil and water. <\/p>\n In 2005, while The Bronx<\/a> were working on their second self-titled album with former Guns N’ Roses<\/a> guitarist Gilby Clarke, word got to the band that their services would be required for a day or two by fast food royalty. They’d get a big fat cheque for their efforts \u2013 not fat like a Rancid or Fugazi offer, but enough to make anyone salivate. <\/p>\n “It was something ridiculous like $120,000,” vocalist Matt Caughthran told this writer. “We were supposed to write this song and they\u2019d put masks on the band and no-one would know it was us.”<\/p>\n Hindsight is always 20-20, said a wise man<\/a>. The band declined the generous renumeration package to play anonymously as the BK house band Coq Roq and resumed work on their own music. <\/p>\n “We didn\u2019t feel comfortable about it,” explained Matt, “so another band did it and the commercial was out for one week.”<\/p>\n The reason for the truncated advertising campaign was thanks to Slipknot<\/a>, who filed a lawsuit for trademark infringement on August 4, 2005. Burger King’s fictional rock band wore masks and it was a little too close to the bone for the Iowan nonet.<\/p>\n