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	You Learn to Live Like an Animal
	We weren't exactly the type of people who took no for an answer. We were much more likely to give no for an answer. As individuals, each of us was street-smart, self-sufficient, and used to doing this his way only -- death before compromise. When we became a unit that quality multiplied by five because we'd have one another's backs as fiercely as we'd stood up for ourselves. All three of the common definitions of the word gang definitely applied to us: 1) we were a group who associated closely for social reasons such as delinquent behavior; 2) we were a collection of people with compatible tastes and mutual interests who gathered to work together; 3) we were a group of persons who associated for criminal or other antisocial purposes. We had a gang's sense of loyalty, too: we only trusted our oldest friends, and found everything we needed to get by in one another. Our group willpower drove us to succeed on our own terms but never made the ride any easier. We were unlike the other bands of the day; we didn't take kindly to criticism from anyone -- not our peers, not the charlatans that tried to sign us to unfair management contracts, not the A&R reps vying to hand us a deal. We did nothing to court acceptance and we shunned easy success. We waited for our popularity to speak for itself and for the industry to take notice. And when it did, we made them pay.
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