> > -Faux "just because someone gets a haircut doesn't mean they've sold out" Pas
>
> The concept of "selling out" interests me, since it's entirely subjective whether or not someone has "sold out" - to my way of thinking, only by allowing people to vampirize your music and use it as the background for commercials is truly selling out. I think that's just horrible. I saw a commercial awhile back - I don't remember what it was for or what the song was - but they used exactly *one line* of the lyrics from the song, and played it over and again with instrumental riffs repeated in between. It was awful. Truly awful. Had I any desire in the first place to buy this product, that disgusting misuse of a song license would have killed it right there.
>

That was Verve's "Bittersweet Harmony" used in a Nike Commericial. It's a pretty neat little song.

Back to Selling Out: Metallica's been accused of selling out -- I just don't see it. They're a metal band, they've got long hair, and toured almost non-stop. The black album comes out, five years without an album, and the first group photo fans have seen of Metallica in that time? They all have short hair. There's a slow(ish) song on the album ("Nothing Else Matters"). "Enter Sandman" gets played on MTV and on the radio. Obviously they've sold out.

Occasionally I come across a few people who tell me that Metallica has sold out -- when I try to talk with about it, it comes down to one thing -- they cut thier hair. That's it.

Just because someone becomes successful, just because a band has become popular, just because other people than you like someone, doesn't mean that they've sold out.

-Faux "Sell out? Yeah, we've sold out. We've sold out every single seat in every single show." Pas