"My rent is $1,100, not including utilities." Animal Collective may have famously boasted of wanting "four walls and adobe slabs" for its members' daughters, but it's that outfit's longtime associate, Ariel Pink, who will straight-up tell you what he pays in rent. "Rent should account for a third of all my income during a given month," he tells me over the phone. "So I need to earn at least $3,300 every month from music in order to be... More >>>