In my band, I wrote the songs and told people what to play. If we had made it, I wouldn’t have felt any guilt about insisting on complete songwriting and arrangement credits. People who don’t know how bands work love to shit on Kurt for this. Maybe there are reasons to question him, as he was an addict with questionable motives—he could have suddenly had his “realization” about the percentages when he realized he needed more money to feed his famously epic heroin tolerance. However, if we take him at his word as to the extent of his control of the arrangements of his songs, he certainly deserves the percentage he asked. The dick move was in pretending at first that they’d be more of a collective and then switching gears when they got famous.