Music - Franz Ferdinand trivia

Pretty much your run-of-the-mill Observer piece about Franz Ferdinand, except for one bit of trivia information:

...and on one occasion (the drummer) Thomson, 29, was so short of money he sold the fat from his buttocks to medical science for the princely sum of £500. Today, there is a neat incision still visible beneath each cheek.

Discuss.

I, personally, would not part with my buttocks, no matter how undersupplied the buttock donor market may be at that point, if only for the crucial sitting comfort factor (and the ass-bone-protecting shock absorption function is not to be sniffed at either..)