Merger with Run-DMC

The "Steven Tyler Laid Off From Aerosmith As Band's Jobless Rate Hits 20%" article in The Onion is mostly a typical so-so Onion piece. There is one paragraph I really, really like, however:

This cost-cutting personnel change is Aerosmith's most radical shift in economic model since the band's experiments as a drug-trafficking cartel from 1978 to 1984, their brief 1986 merger with Run-DMC, and their short-lived 1994 attempt to switch over to fabricating microchips.

Microchips!