You’ll recognize Shepard Fairey by his Obey Clothing designs, his Obama “HOPE” poster, and his impressive lack of anything that once categorized him as a subversive, rebellious street artist.

It’s true. Shepard Fairey, whose real name is Frank, is a teeny bit of a sell out. But hey, he’s just “making the best of life without a trust fund” and who are we to judge? Except when he got famous for the Obama “HOPE” poster, he kinda stopped doing art in the street. We know this because TMZ followed Fairey and his wife around asking him if he ever puts up posters himself to which his wife replied, “long time ago…,” completely undermining her husband’s entire image in three words. Fairey was not pleased and started yelling at her on camera. It was all very awkward.

In order to make up for this, Fairey hit the streets a little too hard (obviously rusty) and ended up on probation for two years and had to pay a $25,000 fine to the city of Detroit. But Fairey doesn’t give a hoot. He’s been arrested 17 times in 20 years and loves it. He stated, “Sometimes when I’ve been arrested I’ve pretended not to be me, but a disciple of me, as it were. This is because at some point I realized that some people in the police force, if they realize you’re a bigger fish, then they want a bigger notch on their belt.” Shepard is his own sheep and doesn’t care who knows it!

In the meantime, he’s living the high life. He DJ’s under the name DJ Diabetes or Emcee Insulin (it makes sense because he has diabetes). Obey is making a killing with clothes and wallpaper and things. He’s getting commissions everywhere from Time Magazine and Saks Fifth Avenue to Nasa and the wedding invitations of Russell Brand and Katy Perry. He’s really making the mo$t out of his probation.