I agree.

you were probably one of the morons who didnt realize born in the usa was an anti war song. if you didnt realize he was a liberal before you bought four of his albums that shows how smart you are.
hahaha thats like me saying i threw out my ted nugent albums when i found out he wouldnt like an african american liberal president

Well I had four videos of Clint Eastwood and threw them in the garbage. If I knew many years ago what kind of a man he would support I would have never bought his movies. And for sure HE IS an old man that should retire!!!!

I'm sure you are in complete political agreement with every album and artist in your collection....

Right on!

XJS are you just fibbing again or do you not know all the good he has done in his home town of Asbury Park?

Here is a link to some of the causes he supports http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/bruce-springsteen

What do you do for society?

Bellair- You have an unnatural desire to follow me around the internet coupled with an inability to stick to the facts in my post. So I'm going to try this again -
I clearly stated that his albums/concerts aren't free as a follow up to him needing to donate his time/money to the working class.

Helping Asbury Park out is nice. Charging the working class residents of other towns to view his concerts makes it a zero sum gain.

Put another way, if he charges me so that he can do something for you (after he takes his cut off the top), why not just cut him out and I'll give you the money directly without the middleman fees?

XJS my friend, you said "If hes' such a "working class hero" why isn't he donating more of his time/money to the working class?"

He is. Are you?

XJS - I am a BS music fan, and I certainly don't like his politics, especially when he used to waste his fans' time at concerts with it. But clearly you don't know anything about the guy or are shooting from the lip, because BS donates an inordinate amount of time/concert proceeds to helping the needy. He donates a lot to the community foodbanks on each of his recent tours, used to do a Kristin Ann Carr foundation concert, plays local school concerts, plays Asbury Park and does rehearsals there to contribute to the economy, etc. He probably does a lot privately that we'll never hear about, but his charity is not something I would question. The declining quality of the music is another issue but your comment is misplaced. Besides, he can do a lot more good by donating proceeds from enormously successful concerts and recordings than he can by giving them away to people who don't need his charity.

@XJS- hahaha thats one of the silliest comments ive ever heard. hes a professional musician, do you do your job for free? the guy donates plenty to charity.
i assume you are voting for romney, he didnt make his millions from volunteer work.

Bellair- I AM the working class.

Again, you're neglecting the fact that the man is charging $100 or more per ticket (I checked his website and ticketmaster to get this information) from the working class to line his pockets.

We can all agree that Bruce Springsteen is a 1 percenter, right? His estimated net worth is over 200 million dollars (the richest dot org). So my point remains - he charges $100 from Peter (his working class concert goers) to give a pittance to Paul (Asbury Park). Understand now?

Since you and Ridgewood Mom seem to think CEOs should only make x more than their employees, the minimum wage should be raised and that discussing fairness has a place in an economic discussion, I brought up the point that he probably "already ha[s] more then they will ever need" -- a term coined by your cohort RM.

That all said, I would bet that on a percentage basis, I give a lot more of my $$ to charity than he does, but no doubt he gives more dollars annually than me overall. My true working class networth is considerably lower than 200 million.

FTR - I don't like his music or his persona, but I don't begrudge him making a successful product and making a ton of money off of it. I just find it absolutely ridiculous that it's OK for him to have lots of money but not a CEO.

Wayne & JG- Voting for Johnson. I think Romney & Obama are both a sham.

XJS- if you are voting johnson you are a lot smarter than i originally thought. i will be doing the same, even if he doesnt stand a chance id much rather vote for a man who is more qualified than the other two canidates put together (great track record in private and public sector).
i always find it funny when romeny supporters argue with obama supporters, all these sheep are too dumb to realize both equal big government and both do not care about the middle class.

JG- I'm voting for Johnson b/c I believe voting for Obama or Romney will not make difference. I'll be getting squeezed along with the rest of the middle class while each sends "welfare" to their pet projects.

Just b/c I rail against the Obama supporters here doesn't mean I like Romney.

The Republican Party was the party of States' Rights and Fiscal Conservatism. Now it's the anti-abortion, big gov't (through defense & other programs) spending & States' Rights (what are those) party. I can't vote for the candidate they vomit up any more than I can vote for whomever the Dems put up. I don't agree with the tenets of the national Democrat Party (and at home, I think the NJ Democrat Party is corrupt), but I think that their candidate at least seems to follow them.

another phony "man of the people" millionaire, that cheated on his former wife with a band member that is now his current wife .Perfect Obama supporter.

If someone in your family does not support your man are you going to throw them out?

We won't miss you. Plenty of tickets still available for Ted Nugent.

Good Walter, Christie gets a few extra seats to fit in to.

Correction: He's supporting a presidential candidate since this is on the campaign trail.

TCG -
1. I'm not a Ryan/Romney fan.
2. I never liked Springsteen, so I've never bought an album. His music never appealed to me. Madonna is another one that spews her politics at concerts. I don't pay to see her either. I think Eastwood is an old coot, and I laughed with him when he said what he said about his performance at the GOP convention.
3. I advocate a free market and capitalism. See my 1:30pm post. I think saying that people have to pay their "Fair Share" is as ludicrous as saying that someone should do their trade for free. I'm glad that you think the latter is silly, hopefully you think the former is too. Bellair doesn't.
4. I wouldn't put a political sign on my lawn. I have class.
5. My money is definitely where my mouth is.
6. While most of you republicans and democrats fight over the same crumbs from the same table, I'll be voting for Gary Johnson. Until we have real tax reform and real gov't spending accountability, we're never going to get out of the mess we're in. Reps and Dems aren't even trying to fix this mess.

You should move to North Korea, where taxes were abolished in 1974 "as remnants of an antiquated society."

Bruce came from factoryville area of NJ? Freehold? Don't think so Scondo.

The trolls have arrived.

amen! But because they have so much influence on the public, I wish they would keep their views to themselves, no matter which side they're on!

He profited from the garbage at the time of purchase.

I don't think that there will be a repeat performance

So true Joan. I love Springsteen and I could care who he supports. However, the last Springsteen concert I attended (and there have been many) was full of his ranting and rhetoric. I spend my hard earned money to go and relax and enjoy myself for a few hours, I do not wish to listen to his views. I don't care who he votes for...I just want to enjoy myself.

Ironically, I sometimes the same way about people who have figured out how to post comments on Patch.

Stacy, have you ever read the words to Bruce Springsteen's song Nebraska?
Springsteen taunts the parents of murdered children when he wrote the following.

"Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor neck back
You make sure my pretty baby is sittin right there on my lap"

The entire song is insensitive to the families of murdered children, Bruce Springseen is a political moron. The entire song is an offense.

Bruce Springsteen Nebraska Lyrics
I saw her standin on her front lawn just twirlin her baton
Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed-off .410 on my lap
Through to the badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path

I can't say that I'm sorry for the things that we done
At least for a little while sir me and her we had us some fun

The jury brought in a guilty verdict and the judge he sentenced me to death
Midnight in a prison storeroom with leather straps across my chest

Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor neck back
You make sure my pretty baby is sittin right there on my lap

They declared me unfit to live said into that great void my should
Be hurled
They wanted to know why I did what I did
Well sir I guess there's just a meanness in this world

Tom, do you even know what the song Nebraska is about??? It's about the 1958 killing spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, which was already covered in detail by the 1973 film Badlands, which starred Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. In fact, his viewing of the film is what inspired him to write the song. He is not taunting parents of murdered children!

Hookerman, doesn't matter what the movie was about. Springsteen didn't have to characterize the execution of Starkweather with the little girl sitting on his lap.

These lyrics are absolutely sickening. No parent should be taunted in this way.

"when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor neck back
You make sure my pretty baby is sittin right there on my lap"

BTW, so was 41 shots.

tom by little girl he's referencing his girlfriend he went on the killing spree with. in no way is this song supporting murder, its recounting a story- thats what a lot of musicians are, story tellers. man you are simple minded.
dont the conservatives alwasy support freedom of speech- if you dont like what hes saying dont by the ablums.
think republicans are just a bit jealous that dems get all the cool celebrities and they are stuck listening to ted nugent, hank williams jr and the rants of donald trump. dems get to listen to bruce and check out scarlett johansen... im a libertarion and just making an outside point of view. dem conventions seem a lot more fun than reps.

JP cut it out, Richard Starkweather was one of the most heinous serial murders of the twentieth century. There was need for Springsteen to glorify him. Among his victims was a two year child and two teenage girls. Bruce Springsteen's memorial to Starweather's killing spree is macabre.Springsteen could have written about a lot of other subjects intsead of taunting the victim's families with this song. Insensitivity to the families and political activism seem to be commonplace in Sprigsteen's pyscho-bable writings and droning quavers. It's time for Americans to grow up and Springsteen to go the way of Victrola. BTW, Starkweather's girl friend did not get the death penalty.

How does he make a mint by paying property taxes on vacant land?

Does that land generate hundreds of thousands of dollars that he pockets?

Bruce Springsteen should have married Jane Fonda. They both agree with Jimmy Carter AND Obama.

Bruce Springscank can't sing. Greatest Singer? I don't drink, so maybe I missed out.

No wonder he's a pig and a disgrace to New Jersey!!!

O yeah, because she has been so vocal in her support for Romney! Celebrities publicly supporting candidates, Springstein, is the very reason for the electoral college system so that the majority doesn't follow a popularity contest. Please don't vote based on the campaigns of a celebrity.

I don't know anyone that does Armando. I never knew that the Founding Fathers had Springsteen in mind when they came up with the Electoral College. They were GENIUS! ( and possibly witches if that's the case!)