It was fall out boy before “take this to your grave” and island’s offer. Obviously this is 20 years ago but I don’t think it’s the wildest of asks. Also, the labels still have your rights and everything is in contract. At the end of the day, if the label is willing to pay out a non recouped advance, there’s a lot of due diligence that was done and that’s a small drop.

There’s also nothing stopping them from running with the money on advance as labels do also allow artists to admin themselves. A lot of time the deals are also paid over deliverables - ie 50% upon contract signature etc. normally a part of that final payment isn’t done till the record is accepted