Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Bands That Sell Out
When bands sell out are they really selling out? I was talking with a friend last night about this whole issue when a greenday video came on. We came to an agreement that this saying was created by bands that sucked, you know they dont suck though they just blame it on the bad equipement. Anyway we decided that selling out is really just getting the job, so next time a small independent band makes it big dont say they sold out say they got the job.
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As I read what you wrote a thought came to mind: You sellout! Getting the job and selling out are very different things. Let's do a quick example that will clarify the difference.
1) A poor ass punk rock band plays around town for centuries and then gets a show that pays quite decently and this leads to more shows. The band then gets a shitty record deal on a shitty indi record label and continue to play mediocre shows for ok pay. They are offered a huge contract with sony but in that contract they must sign to lose creative freedom over their music and make a spanish album. The band says fuck you and continue to forge their way into history as a none sellout band.
2) A poor ass punk rock band plays around town for centuries and then gets a show that pays quite decently and this leads to more shows. The band is offered to play on a shitty ass record label, they do it. They play some more shows and a big record company asks them to sign away their creative genius, they sign. The band goes on tour and records a horrid ass video with hot girls and they play a song that was written by the studio song writer (her boyfriend, he don't know, anything, about her, he's too stoned, nintendo). Millions of little girls now know the words to all their shitty songs that they didn't write and all their old fans call them sellouts and contemplate suicide as life now seems meaningless. SELL OUTS!
But that's just my opinion and a couple of examples. Nothing that would hold up in punk-rock court
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