somewhere between Dave Grohl and Bono

The BAND doesn't thier label does.

And they signed the contract giving their label permission. Quit trying to hide the fact your favorite band is nothing but a bunch of corporate whores just like the ones you claim to be "rebelling against."

So what? They're sell-outs for signing with a major label who cultivate them and their image, and instruct them on what they have to put out, when they need to release their next album, etc.

But sorry, the question is where is the line between sell-outs and talentless nobodies. I think Oomph straddle the line pretty well: other than being sell-outs, on the basis of what I've heard they seem to excel in the talentless-nobodies department too :laughing:

In a lot of cases merchandise deals are done separate from record deals and bands tend to have much more control over them.
So if they're selling lighters and lanyards on their own webpage that suggests to me the band put it there themselves.

Only because the label wouldn't sign them (any label or any band) if they refused to let them sell merch. And you know what, the people who work at the record company, the people who work at the factory that manufactures the CDs, they all need to feed thier family too it isn't that big of a deal. At least they aren't compromising thier sound, the pens and t-shirts do not invariably mean they are selling out.

LMFAO! So in other words, they sold out in order to get a recoding contract. :laughing:

Wrong. Plenty of tiny labels would be perfectly happy to have a commercially viable band like Oomph on their register on condition that no merchandise would be sold. Oomph had the option of being on a tiny underground label. Instead they went for the big corporate one and sold out.

They don't have an 'image', they have a name and that's about the extent of it.

:finger:

Which is plastered over pens , lighters , lanyards & car stickers

Hahaha...........no.