One of the reasons The Beastie Boys had money was that in 1983 they sued British Airways [1] for using a snippet of “Beastie Revolution” [2] without permission

One of the reasons The Beastie Boys had money was that in 1983 they sued British Airways [1] for using a snippet of “Beastie Revolution” [2] without permission and received for $40,000 which they used to build a rent an apartment / rehearsal space / recording studio which they used to learn their craft. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110826155454/http://samplinglaw.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/the-very-first-sampling-lawsuit/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110826155454/http://samplingla... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooky_Puss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooky_Puss