“You can get money for blood,

Blood money for doing no good,

But they won’t take my love for tender”

-Elvis Costello, Clean Money

“Pimp put on weight from fighting them off,

In the mall, you see it and like it, it’s yours,

Thats a nice fit, you ain’t gotta price, shit,

I pays for it like the mics in The Source”

-J Dilla, Won’t Do

“Defendant testified that even though both Plaintiff and her mother told him that all they wanted was an apology, he called Plaintiff’s home and spoke to her mother to offer money for Plaintiff’s ‘education.'”

–Bill Cosby Rape Deposition

“One never could ‘buy’ indulgences. The financial scandal surrounding indulgences, the scandal that gave Martin Luther an excuse for his heterodoxy, involved alms—indulgences in which the giving of alms to some charitable fund or foundation was used as the occasion to grant the indulgence. There…