Who are the sell outs in the music biz?Follow

Absolutely spot on Deathwysh, a good example of this was Extreme.

they made a packet with Pornographity but thier next album which was the music that they wanted to make all along, was utter cr*p and flopped.

I made the mistake of buying it on release and sold it the next day.

Erm, people usually call a band/artist a sell-out when they go from a less marketable sound to a more commercial sound (presumably to sell more albums). Not when they start as the pop flavor of the week and then start writing experimental music with insightful lyrics and no commercial appeal or whatever. Your definition makes no sense: You sell out to make money by broadening your fan base to the rank-and-file (at least in the eyes of your original base), not to lose money by intentionally writing albums no one from either fan base will want to listen to.

Really, I don't know jack about Metallica and rap, but in my example I would be willing to bet that Ms. Phair has made more off her latest "sell out" album than at least any two of her three previous albums combined. So your theory is that she wrote a bunch of earlier stuff with limited appeal to most markets for three albums just so she could scrimp and save enough pennies to realize her dream of producing an album bland enough that it gets constant airplay on the local "Adult Rock from the 80's 90's and Today" music station? The broad's a frickin' martyr

Which explains why you came into a pretty harmless and trivial thread to cry like a little girl yourself about people calling artists "sell outs".

Brilliant. But that doesn't preclude anyone from having an opinion on the artist or their work which the poster found not worth buying.

Well, by his definition, if Brittney Spears decided she had enough money now to produce an album of classical opera, she'd be called a sell out. That's just silly.