Sorry, g, but you're really not being helpful, just sarcastic,. which is another thing entirely. I'll try to resist the temptation to indulge my own sarcasm in what follows.

Let me repeat: I never said that Dylan, quote-unquote, "needs the money," an absurd proposition. Quotation marks get their name because they're supposed to represent somebody's actual words, not another person's made-up version of those words. My point was that Dylan may be trying to "protect his fortune" (actual quote) as wealthy people do when they're going through divorce. I didn't make this up on my own, by the way. It's been reported in the press. There was even an accompanying photo of Dylan's ex-wife to be, accused by Dylan's side of being a dangerous free-spender.

Obviously, Dylan will never "need money" in the way ordinary people understand the concept. In the economic class in which he has resided nearly all of his adult life, fabulously wealthy people fight furiously, using a range of strategies (including, perhaps, the release of a throwaway but potentially big-selling album), to keep their core fortune intact against claims on a portion of it by alienated spouses and their high-priced attorneys.

Frankly, this reading of Dylan's motives, right or wrong, doesn't seem worth getting all that worked up about. The irritation and sarcasm in some of the discussion on this thread are genuinely head-scratching. Is this characteristic of the level of Mudcat discourse?