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As edshift (and welcome, btw) says, a lot has to do with your stated goals.
You can only "sell out", to my way of thinking, through hypocrisy. It's only my own personal yardstick, but then, as we've already seen in this thread, that's all any of us really have to go on in this argument.
I have nothing against people doing adverts, or whatever, as long as they're not claiming it's the kind of thing they don't do. Sting, for example. While loudly trumpeting environmentalism, did a car advert (I forget which car- unless they're old-style Beetles, they all look the same to me) but justified this by giving his fee to environmental charities. Like the money makes much difference to him, anyway, and like the donation means shit compared to the pollution caused by the things he's promoting...
(See also, Paul McCartney, Pipes Of Peace video, trashing a whole bunch of countryside for the video yet still somehow famed for his environmentalism. Or Chris Martin- look, dude. You may not care about EMI's shareholders, and neither do I. But then, I never signed the contract. And if it DID make that much of a difference to the company that your album was late, and they started firing people at the bottom level... well then, who's the cunt there?)
Personally, I don't really see the whole "selling out" thing as being unique to music, or indeed to art in any form. Lying pisses me off when it's done by a guy in the pub as much as it does when it's done by a guy on a stage.
I also find it a bit weird when people stop liking a band purely because they've become popular/are making lots of money. Personally, when I hear a band I like, I would love for them to be showered in riches and all the earthly pleasures they could imagine, for doing such a wonderful thing in the first place. If their albums become crap afterwards, I'll be bitterly disappointed, but nobody's making me buy them. |
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