Joe Escalante stole lyrics and music from his ex-bandmates and sold rights to Sony and Adidas for $80,000, crediting himself as sole author. Sales records show that in the 2000s alone he pocketed approximately $250,000 in royalties and licensing fees from the album PEACE THRU VANDALISM that should have been split evenly with his former bandmates.

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