Heavy Metal Music Addictive, Good for Career

Sweden's English-language news outlet reported in June that the government's employment service had granted Roger Tullgren, 42, supplemental income benefits based on his illness of addiction to heavy-metal music. Tullgren (with long, black hair, tattoos and skull-and-crossbones jewelry and who said he attended nearly 300 concerts last year) said he had been addicted for 10 years but finally got three psychologists to sign off on calling his condition a disability. His employer now permits Tullgren to play his music at his dishwashing job. [TheLocal.se, 6-19-07]

We have had similar problems here at MR. Brass has been addicted to lotions and Ben Gibbard for 2 years counting.