"Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad — ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor," Waits said in a statement. "While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers."
Tom Waits is suing General Motors for using a Waits sound-a-like in a series of commerials after he turned them down. This is not the first time he's had to file suit against a corporation for this sort of thing. Yet another reason to respect Tom Waits.
