TCB
By Christopher Gray, Fri., Feb. 28, 2003
Scene Stealers: Yuppie Pricks
Finally, a band Fox News Channel anchor Bill O'Reilly can believe in. Austin's Yuppie Pricks are passionate about capitalism, the NRA, bombing Iraq, and helping local punk rockers lead more meaningful lives. In true Bret Easton Ellis fashion, the Pricks are featured in the February issue of style bible GQ -- written up by new local scenester Neal Pollack -- and consist of former prep-school quarterback and pharmaceutical heir Trevor Middleton; his best friend, Deuce Hollingsworth, divorce lawyer; stockbroker Preston Hetherington; and mercenary drummer Darin Murano, who drives a Honda Civic and makes a flat $500 per gig. Contemplating his Stoli Vanilla at the Brown Bar downtown, Middleton sighs, "Really, this whole fame thing is just a hobby for us."
TCB: Why should anyone care about the Yuppie Pricks?
Hollingsworth: We're the best punk rock band in town. We're the best rock & roll band in town, period. Everybody else is fucking boring. We're it.
TCB: What do the Yuppie Pricks say to people who might call them sellouts?
Hetherington: The best thing about this band is that you can never question our credibility as far as whether we're doing it for the money or not, because we tell you up front we're doing it for the money. Plus, we have so much cash already it doesn't even matter.
TCB: Are the Yuppie Pricks a political band?
Middleton: I wouldn't say that any of us care about politics unless they're politics that are going to make us more money or more famous.
Hetherington: If the rest of the world were more like us, then the world would be a better place.
TCB: What's the Yuppie Pricks' drug of choice?
Hollingsworth: Cocaine, my brother.
Middleton: Oh yeah.
Hetherington: Bolivian marching powder!
TCB: Who are the Yuppie Pricks' role models?
Hetherington: You mean other than ourselves?
Hollingsworth: I would say my father and my grandfather. They're both divorce lawyers, they never lost a dime to a bitch, and it was just get paid and get laid.
Middleton: Burt Reynolds.
Murano: Richard Avedon.
Hollingsworth: Who? Is that some gay porn star?
The Yuppie Pricks play Emo's Friday with the Briefs, release their debut CD Initial Public Offering at the Flamingo Cantina Saturday, and appear on KVRX's Local Live 10pm Sunday.
