Johnny Cash / Photo by Al Clayton

Recently, SPIN.com ran an article in reaction to the snatching of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' gravestone, pondering which other deceased icons should be protecting their burial assets. And then came the news that on October 14, the world will be graced with the latest figurative coffin-raping of Johnny Cash's legacy, Johnny Cash Remixed (Compadre/Music World).

Cash has always been the most broadly accessible symbol of country machismo for audiences and artists who would otherwise refer to the genre after the words "I listen to anything but." And now, the country pioneer's music will be exploited by a new crew of opportunists, most disconcertingly, outlaw pimp Snoop Dogg, who's chosen to digg into "Walk the Line" as a clumsy complement to his recent Cash tribute-of-sorts, "My Medicine."

Cash is not alone of course. Ray Charles, 2Pac, and Kurt Cobain (who has actually suffered the indignity of both graveside- and-intellectual-property theft), to name a few, have all been repackaged and biopic-ed into oblivion. And then there's the Michael Jacksons of the pop lexicon, who've soiled both their personal and artistic reputations (we'll try and forget that Thriller reissue ever happened) while barely in middle age.

So, a la our rundown of potential Curtis copycat victims, here are five of music's remaining living icons most vulnerable to their afterlife legend being reduced to its most marketable common denominator:

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