Why do people call bands like Fall Out Boy and Good charlotte "Sellouts"? (alternative, punk)

655321 · 02-23-2008, 11:29 PM

i also agree wiht this

~~Farfisa~~ · 02-23-2008, 11:46 PM

Any band that has merchandise at hot topic sold out........if they had like shirts and **** from bands that I actually like for a reasonable price.......yeah I'd shop there but I actually buy stuff from thrift stores now.

655321 · 02-23-2008, 11:55 PM

yeah i tend to avoind buying new clothes, i feel like ive said this alot on this thread but i tned to go to second hand shops asin i agree wiht you

~~hahaha.im.back.~~ · 03-04-2008, 12:57 PM

fall out boy ARE ****ing sellouts. so are you guys. i just hacked into your piece of **** bitches. go give your transvestite mom a blowjob your ****sucking ***gots. **** **** **** ass **** whore bitch slut pussy now ban me one more time homos

--****yoursister@youra***.com

Urban Hat€monger ? · 03-04-2008, 01:00 PM

Bye

655321 · 03-04-2008, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hahaha.im.back.

fall out boy ARE ****ing sellouts. so are you guys. i just hacked into your piece of **** bitches. go give your transvestite mom a blowjob your ****sucking ***gots. **** **** **** ass **** whore bitch slut pussy now ban me one more time homos

--****yoursister@youra***.com

i wonder if this was the same guy giving me hell a while back

SATCHMO · 03-04-2008, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by loose_lips_sink_ships

Any band that has merchandise at hot topic sold out.......

Marketing is a crucial part of running any business, which is what a band is in part. I think people mistakenly equate a bands increased popularity or success with being a sellout. thats not necessarily so.It's OK to make tons of money in every other career field. Why is music different? Nobody ever points the finger at the record company execs who, in many cases are the only ones getting rich off a bands success.
The whole Green Day plague on MB was annoying cuz' kids were associating GD with punk without any exposure to any other punk bands or any knowledge of the genre's history. Selling out is an artists intentional disregard of musical integrity for the sake of generating more income or widening their audience.
Bob Dylan was called a sellout when he made the great switch from acoustic folk to electric rock in 1965, but it was his artistic license to do. His response to people complaining that he wasn't writing political folk anthems was "write your own anthems". Amen.

jackhammer · 03-04-2008, 03:01 PM

Iron Maiden used merchandise very well as a marketing tool. It's not the products it's all about whose wearing them and why.

Alfred · 03-13-2008, 01:29 PM

I have a question. Why is this in the punk section?

Urban Hat€monger ? · 03-13-2008, 01:30 PM

To annoy people

02-23-2008, 11:29 PM	#21 (permalink)
655321 i ruin threads Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: littleton newhampshire Posts: 110	i also agree wiht this __________________ Well there's one thing to know about this town Not a person doesn't want me underground

02-23-2008, 11:55 PM	#23 (permalink)
655321 i ruin threads Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: littleton newhampshire Posts: 110	yeah i tend to avoind buying new clothes, i feel like ive said this alot on this thread but i tned to go to second hand shops asin i agree wiht you __________________ Well there's one thing to know about this town Not a person doesn't want me underground

03-04-2008, 01:00 PM	#25 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Bye __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

03-04-2008, 03:01 PM	#28 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Iron Maiden used merchandise very well as a marketing tool. It's not the products it's all about whose wearing them and why. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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02-23-2008, 11:46 PM	#22 (permalink)
~~Farfisa~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,773	Any band that has merchandise at hot topic sold out........if they had like shirts and **** from bands that I actually like for a reasonable price.......yeah I'd shop there but I actually buy stuff from thrift stores now.

03-04-2008, 12:57 PM	#24 (permalink)
~~hahaha.im.back.~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1	fall out boy ARE **ing sellouts. so are you guys. i just hacked into your piece of bitches. go give your transvestite mom a blowjob your sucking gots. * ass whore bitch slut pussy now ban me one more time homos --yoursister@youra*.com

03-13-2008, 01:30 PM	#30 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	To annoy people __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.