Remember when Motley Crue toed the line between great success and utter destruction. The days of infighting and injecting that led to Vince Neil’s supposed ejection and Tommy Lee’s objection to retaining rock star credibility. To those who object to the latter claim I need only refer to Tommy Lee Goes to College. Regardless of each individual member’s pitfalls over the years, now it seems the Crue have circled the wagons to focus their ire elsewhere. At the moment, MTV.

According to Billboard.com, the boys are fed up with MTV. In 2006 the crew of eyeliner-wearing, high-heel strutting junkies reached a deal with MTV Films/Paramount to produce a biopic based on the band’s autobiography The Dirt. Unfortunately, as with all things Crue-related, time has not been in the band’s favor. “We’re trying to get them (MTV) out of the way to make this movie that should have been made a long time ago,” says Sixx. Translation: I wanna see myself on the big screen because next time I might not get that second shot of adrenaline.

Less a worthy jab at a channel once heralded for its placement of credible music into the American zeitgeist that has since retarded into a parody of itself and the worst America has to offer, Sixx has criticized MTV with words that may very well reflect on the Crue: “MTV has become bogged down in its own way. It’s a channel that used to be hip and has now become unhip.” This coming from a band who these days chooses to survive off its former reputation as hard-living, hard-rocking band of heathens as opposed to continue their evil ways a la Keith Richards.

But, all may not be lost, the band’s new album Saints of Los Angeles hits stores Tuesday and, despite it being an autobiographical album detailing the notoriety that lay at the heart of the band’s charm and their antics no longer living up to the grit of the days of Dr. Feelgood, perhaps, sobriety might just sound as good.