when has a band "sold out" ?

[MrMon]

As notorious "sellout" Liz Phair has noted, anyone in the music business is in it to make money. Anyone who doesn't understand that can just go [censored] themselves while they cash in another check from daddy's trust fund.

[Utah]

I think Twister Sister licensing, "We're Not Gonna to Take It", the anthem for the youth of a generation, to sell a product for a woman's period defines sellout.

[madnak]

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As notorious "sellout" Liz Phair has noted, anyone in the music business is in it to make money. Anyone who doesn't understand that can just go [censored] themselves while they cash in another check from daddy's trust fund.

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This is exactly why there will always be some truth to the term. Most musicians are, at least to some degree, artists who care about their work. But there will always be some who don't have a clue.

[Dominic]

The Cars and Seals & Croft never sold out!

[SNOWBALL]

Sellouts isn't really a term that I think is appropriate to use when you are describing bands or artists. These are individuals, and they owe you nothing. I use sellout to describe politicians, bad union leaders, etc.
because they actually have a duty to another group of people.

[madnak]

Says who? Political leaders have a perceived duty to the public, as do artists. Both are perfectly capable of acting in their self-interest instead of according to the obligations most people attribute to them.

[bernie]

She thinks Nirvana made the album solely to make an impact and be popular?

The girl's an idiot.

She might not realize that Nevermind sat on the shelf for a year before it hit big. It made it by word of mouth. It was never supposed to make it on the radio. But radio couldn't ignore the requests.

When it hit, it hit with a sonic boom. It also opened the door for alot of other music that you wouldn't normally hear on radio. Including Metallica. It was a fun year when NM hit. You really didn't know what you were going to hear next on the radio.

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what does sellout mean?


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In regards to music it means the person saying it in reference to a band as a put down is either a jealous broke musician and/or an ignorant moron.

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[hmkpoker]

Nirvana totally sold out. Kurt Cobain's suicide was a publicity stunt.

[Sheakspeer]

When they don't know your name anymore. If you're just a fan, and you don't know the band members personally, they're the ones selling you out because you buy their noise.

If they put their stupid song on a commercial or whatever, they haven't sold out because they're boys with cadillac's CEO or whatever and they have a new friend while YOU buy their noise on a cd AND a cadillac AND they could care less what happens to you including if your cadillac flies off a cliff with "Black Dog" roaring on your new system.

If you buy their t-shirt or whatever, you better hope they don't use the money to buy drugs or something stupid like that.

I have like 250 cd's and my friends hate practically every single one.

Rock and roll used to be free.

[prohornblower]

It's always a bad sign when a band/act has a song where they list a bunch of cities. They are just trying to cater to the fans by mentioning the city they live in. Whoopee.