I like dave mustaine. He's an arsehole that's written some of the best riffs known to man. I hope he sticks around, but I have a feeling this is a sell off to help with medical expenses. Either that or he knows he should get rid of all this stuff now whilst he's still alive to promote it.
He doesn't look very well at all.
I also hope he gets better. In all honesty though, it looks like he is just cleaning shit out of his garage for nonsensical reasons.
I mean, he's not exactly broke. Even if he's not top 1% in terms of US Net Worth, he's top 2%. He's not making Metallica amounts of money, sure, but even if he does have a bunch of expensive medical treatments piling up, cleaning $10k worth of shit he has in his garage isn't really going to make a difference. Cancer treatments can be expensive in the US, especially if you don't have insurance and aren't Medicare aged, but for all his bitching about the government and right wing nuttiness, I'm sure he has at least one good health insurance policy. He has a net worth well upwards of $10 million easy.
It's not like a Chuck Billy or Chuck Schuldiner "working class musician" situation where Dave Mustaine would really need the help of the metal community because his treatments are going to bankrupt his family.
There are definitely plenty of working class musicians of famous '80s metal bands who could realistically do benefit sales or benefit concerts or whatever if they arrived at a medical situation like that. But if you have Metallica levels of money, or even Dave Mustaine levels of money, which is still
at least 10 times what the richest person on this forum has, it's kind of disingenuous to do the whole, "I'm doing this because I need help with my medical bills" thing. So I doubt it's for that. Which you know, is clearly why he's not saying that. Once again, I hope he gets better, but if he pulled the whole, "Buy my shitty gear that was gathering dust in my garage to help out with medical bills" thing it would be an eye roll. You wouldn't expect EVH to pull a "buy my shit to help me out with Medical bills" kind of thing. Dave Mustaine doesn't have EVH money levels of money, but the idea that he's not extremely well off is ridiculous.
Also, in terms of "80s Metal Musicians that aren't extremely well off", Metallica were going to release some early demos, which would have made Ron McGovney a substantial chunk of change, there's a guy who is probably not extremely well off and could use the money, Dave Mustaine blocked their release for "Dave Mustaine is an asshole" reasons. So it's hard to be sympathetic in terms of putting him in "80s Metal Musicians who could use financial help" category, considering the fact that not only is he extremely well off, he also has no problem screwing people who aren't as well off out of money for ego reasons.