http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_selling_music_artists

Movies are rather different, of course.

>He could have had a Tommy Gun too Sorry to be a pendant, but a Tommy Gun IS a Thompson.

Gold does not confer any noteable advantage at all in the endgame (either raiding or serious PVP). There's extremely little in the way of high-end gear that can be purchased for gold, most needs to be acquired in ways directly related to combat. True, a certain amount of gold is necessary to keep one's equipment in order and purchase useful consumables, but it doesn't require massive effort to acquire. Beyond that, the difference between myself with fifty thousand carefully hoarded gold pieces and someone with one or two thousand is negligable for the purposes of the endgame content.

Holy crap, you're right! Obviously, it's simply not possible get any of our power from sources that don't have 100% uptime.

ask them how they would feel if the phone company suddenly started charging them for receiving calls

Shh! Telecoms execs could be reading this RIGHT NOW!