Sun Ra’s Arkestra played for two dollars a night plus hamburgers

Evidence

The Arkestra next played for the poets at Les Deux Mégots, followed by a stint at Café Bizarre where, billed as the Outer Spacemen, they were paid two dollars each a night, plus hamburgers, thus staking a claim to the weirdo realm of Tiny Tim and Moondog. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 891

Categorization

• CANDY: The outer-space band paid in two dollars and hamburgers is a fun tidbit about how cheap the scene was.
• XREF: Direct evidence for the reader’s core claim that extreme cheapness of living/playing was a material precondition of avant-garde density.