Corey Taylor says Slipknot are only “upper middle class”

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Corey Taylor has said that Slipknot are only “upper middle class” while speaking about the band members’ financial statuses.During a recent appearance on the FeedbackDef podcast, the frontman of the masked metal group was asked how “tempting” it was to get caught up in the money side of his profession.“Honestly, in a weird way, we don’t make a lot of money,” Taylor responded. “I mean, we make enough to live, obviously, and we can live comfortably.

But we’ve never been offered massive deals.“There’s a lot of us in the band, and there’s a whole crew that we have to pay. There’s the production that we have to pay for.

There’s all of this shit that we need to pay for. So at the end of the day, we are paid pretty much commensurate with what we are worth.”Taylor continued: “We’ve never been even close to the big paydays that sports people get, actors… all of that shit.

So in a weird way, we’re kind of… if you adjust for inflation, we’re upper middle class, basically.“We’re not extravagant. We’re not rich by any stretch of the means, but we do OK.