Hey, Let's Pool Our Meager Resources And License A Nirvana Song [Teenage Angst Paid Off Once And Only Once]

Because nobody else is buying? When Courtney Love sold off a portion of the publishing rights to Nirvana's musical corpus for a rumored $50 million, Primary Wave Music ­Publishing, who snatched up the Cobain catalog, presumably expected a big payoff given that, you know, the music in question is world-renown, generation-defining, etc. According to Portfolio, however, advertisers and other agents of capitalism out to make a buck off Gen X nostalgia, well, they're being total lamestains. We may...

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