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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt
The big deal is they never said they would. They came from an underground community and sold it out. .
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I don't know if the first part is true but the second part is wrong. If by 'underground community' you mean late-80s punk, well, Green Day was not respected by any underground community that I knew of. They were just another punk band who dyed their hair and sang in a fake vaguely Brit accent. The punks I knew at the time all hated Green Day - every last one. The band was a joke. I am a little surprised they ended up getting paid (cuz the music is so awfully trite and boring) but they certainly didn't sell out any worthwhile underground community
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Originally Posted by FaSho
I'm sure you guys would love to make more money at your job just by changing what you do a little bit.
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Yeah but, by definition, jobs suck so who cares. But if my job was to be in a famous band playing music that I write myself then I swear to you that I would play whatever I wanted without any thought about the financial reward. Then again, I probably wouldn't make much (or be famous in the first place)
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Absolutely. As a professional designer myself, I have a pretty hard time criticizing someone for using their creative abilities to make money.
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I can see where you're coming from and I don't think it's wrong. But wouldn't you love your art / profession more if you could create whatever you wanted and be paid the same amount for it as by making stuff that other people tell you to make?
But that's beside the point because commercial artists are not sell-outs they are artists who make money by satisfying the needs of other people who have money to spend.
Musicians who begin by making whatever music they want but then are put in a position where they are expected to reach certain budget numbers by making music they don't want to make (or 'changing it a little bit') end up shooting themselves in the head and I can see why