Bet it hurt the rats more.

Ozzy Osbourne bites the heads off some live animals, shot 17 of his own cats, and is now one of the richest musicians in the UK, worth well over One Hundred Million Pounds.

That banning thing seems to really work, doesnt it?
Then again, maybe Ozzy was banned from the art world- havent seen any shows of his at the Henry lately...

And those rats? Hard to explain, hard to defend an act of wanton cruelty, unless in the context of other, often far greater acts of human cruelty that provided the historical context for Jones’s performance at the time. This personal history included service in the nightmare of the Vietnam war, where Jones and his fellow US marines would torture rats in the mud-holes where they spent their days, out of anger, out of cynicism, out of spite, perhaps directed at the callousness of the political contingencies that led them there. Sheer boredom could be it, or, in a larger context, the act reflected human fear or indifference in regards to the well-being of other creatures that share this planet with us. Maybe the rats and the the whole invocation of suffering tapped into our ancient, primordial impulses to ward off the blows of the gods through ritual acts of sacrifice. Let’s face it, in the course of human history, humanity has been guilty of far worse deeds than the immolation of a handful of rats. Jones’s action was intended precisely to confront us with that history, and with the deeply disturbing understanding that the veneer of what we believe to be our more enlightened civilization is thin indeed.

What teh world needs is a new Robert Storr. Burn the old one.