(June 27, 2015 at 2:25 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Although "selling out" has a proper meaning, I think it is typically applied to bands that people don't like. In one sense, it is impossible for a commercial band to sell out, since the point of putting out a CD or download or whatever with a price tag on it is to make money. Many people seem to forget that, and imagine that somehow their favored band is "pure" and is doing what they are doing irrespective of money. But anything with a price tag on it is about money. It may also be about other things, too, but it is about money regardless of whether it is about anything else.
True, even tough there are countless ways to make money so at least a portion of artists obvious have personal interest in what they do and artistic expression usually has a message and contributes to culture. Some albums and songs even become iconic and a symbolism of some deep philosophical concept or event. For the most part I agree that it is applied to bands people don't like - Green Day supposedly sold out with American Idiot, but to be honest I think they were always a terrible band.
Alex, some of Metallica's blues is good, but for someone who started with And Justice For All it's complicated to like it as much
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
