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| ▲ | BaseBaal 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Reminds me of Tool's reaction to that trend, "Hooker with a Penis" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooker_with_a_Penis |
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| ▲ | InsideOutSanta 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| AKA the good old times when it wasn't as culturally accepted to be openly evil if it made money. |
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| ▲ | BoingBoomTschak 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is there something wrong with being critical of bands for selling out, though? |
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| ▲ | bryanrasmussen an hour ago | parent [-] | | the concept of selling out often seems seriously under-specified, and thus, like many things in our society, it becomes a tool for one set of people to improve their own status by attacking another set of people. It is in the end a moral stance on what are the proper aesthetics, which is the kind of thing that manages to make both morality and aesthetics extremely suspect. |
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| ▲ | antonvs 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's a very different situation. An individual "anchoring their identity" to a brand isn't doing so to earn money, which is why bands "sell out". It's just a choice they make about who they are, and I have to agree with GP that that seems tragically uncool. |
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| ▲ | thwarted 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Except this is being critical of the popularity and fans, not the band. |
