Sex Pistols frontman blew $15,600 on iPad games

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The Great In-App Purchase Swindle. Photo:
The Great In-App Purchase Swindle. Photo: Denaflows/Flickr CC

Is there anything more punk rock than spending loads of money on in-app purchases for iPad games? If your answer is a resounding “yes, of course there is,” prepare to argue with former Sex Pistols screecher John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon.

Speaking with the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper, Lydon claims he spent “10,000 f*cking pounds” (around $15,600) during a two-year app-buying bender on his iPad.

“I got into Game of Thrones, Game of War, Real Racing, and I just wanted to up the ante,” he said, making downloading apps sound like the new version of throwing TVs out of hotel windows. “[L]ike an idiot I didn’t check myself. I’ve been checked now. But there’s a kid in me, see? A bit of my childhood was taken from me and I’m determined to bring it back.”

The gadget-loving Lydon also waxes lyrical about his beloved Bowers & Wilkins speakers and how he’d rather drive a Ferrari in a PlayStation game than own one in real life.

While dropping $15,600 on iPad apps is a luxury few of us can afford, by celebrity standards Lydon’s habit is not so extreme. Earlier this year, NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal revealed that he spends an astonishing $1,000 a week buying apps. “I’m not afraid to say I’m a geek at heart,” Shaq told The Wall Street Journal in an interview.

Via: The Verge

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