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"Selling out"
sjbrot:
Ok, well, think about what selling out is: The foresaking of any artistic relevance for financial incentives. That's why this should be legitimate concern.
A popular example would be TV ads using music. Obviously, there are alot of small bands out there who can really use the money, and it's still exposure. On the other hand, the emotional significance of a song can be robbed when you see it being used to hawk useless shit.
There are alot of people who are simply reactionary music fans, who look at any band who makes it big are just in it for a quick buck. It seems to me that music is much less about the experience then a way of creating an identity for themselves.
To end it, I don't care if a band signs to a major or does an ad or comes out with an action figure. In fact, if there was a Beck action figure, I would be gratefull.
Just as long as the artist has the listener in mind when he undertakes any of these things.
RUMBLEMOOSE:
I too would buy a Beck action figure, or maybe several hundred of them.
On topic: The Velvet Underground was originally just Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison on guitars and Angus Maclise on percussion, but Maclise quit when the other two said they wanted to play shows. To Maclise, making any money from music was selling out, even though that was the most obvious way to actually share music with the people. Is there really a definite line to be drawn here at all, or is the concept of "selling out" completely relative?
On the other side of the ballpark, what if A Popular Underground Metal Band was really just honestly bored with thrash metal and decided that mediocre AOR pap was really exciting unexplored territory? I'm sure it has happened that a band has moved inadvertently in a commercial direction while trying to follow their muse.
Tomservo:
Oh man, what an awesome idea
I would buy a Beck action figure
They could have a diffrent one for each cd
RUMBLEMOOSE:
Or four different ones for Sea Change that are all basically the same but with different paint jobs!
Oh yeah, is that selling out-- multiple/collectors' versions of stuff? I've seen lots of bands lately going through literally dozens of limited vinyl pressings of an album, forcing me to shell out extra for a special clear holographic foil-label 130g virgin vinyl release with different artwork and one of three bonus tracks when really I'd just settle for any playable vinyl copy of the album.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: RUMBLEMOOSE ---Or four different ones for Sea Change that are all basically the same but with different paint jobs!
Oh yeah, is that selling out-- multiple/collectors' versions of stuff? I've seen lots of bands lately going through literally dozens of limited vinyl pressings of an album, forcing me to shell out extra for a special clear holographic foil-label 130g virgin vinyl release with different artwork and one of three bonus tracks when really I'd just settle for any playable vinyl copy of the album.
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See those annoy me, like Gorillaz releasing five editions of their last record at once.
Wilco did a tour edition once, but if you put in a code that came with the original edition then you could still get the bonus songs, which is awesome.
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