Linkin Park were possibly nu metal’s biggest breakout stars. Hybrid Theory, released in October 2000, quickly became one of rock’s biggest-ever debuts, going gold in just five weeks before becoming the best-selling album of 2001. By the time the Californians released follow-up Meteora in 2003, they’d already sold 14 million records and gone Platinum many times over.
Such monumental success of course fattened the band’s wallets, and in a 2003 interview, Q magazine asked them what they’d spent their Hybrid Theory earnings on. They probably expected them to come back with answers like ‘supercars’, ‘a mansion’ and ‘hot tubs full of champagne’. Instead, the responses they got were far less rock’n’roll – but respectably, brilliantly random.
