The idea of "selling out" (1 Viewer)

[therealjohnny]

 

[nooleen]

it's the only way to be sure

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Is that the posh lad from Blur?

 

[therealjohnny]

yeah

 

[therealjohnny]

Buying Nazi memorabilia off CLarkson

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Looks like one of those Polish National Front logos, is it?

 

[therealjohnny]

I doubt it..but that would be hilarious

 

[nooleen]

Old news, but I hadn't heard about this until last night
In my mind Peter Garret was still an anrgy eco-activist. When I think of a highly politically-charged pop song that was a massive hit I think of this;
He got elected to the Australian Labour Party, made some pretty controversial and eye popping decisions ( approving uranium mining on aboriginal lands, creating a program that took money from aboriginal people if their kids didn't attend school...), got accused of selling out, and has now retired from politics.
I don't expect much from pop stars and their political stances but I found this all a bit sad and disappointing (years after the fact)
Peter Garrett – the biggest sell-out in Australian politics | melange
Rock star turned politician branded a 'sell out' - Australasia - World - The Independent

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followed in the queue by this which is hilarious despite not knowing anything about australian politicians except that tony abbot's a cunt and julia gillard has a big arse

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[therealjohnny]

 

[Lili Marlene]

There was a good cartoon in the PITCHFORK REVIEW (no less) by Zak Sally about selling out recently. Doesn't appear to be online but the basic point was how very fucking dare you try and say that these things aren't even worth thinking about. As if "sure we all have to make a living" is a good enough excuse to not even consider the implications of it all. So there.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

There was a good cartoon in the PITCHFORK REVIEW (no less) by Zak Sally about selling out recently. Doesn't appear to be online but the basic point was how very fucking dare you try and say that these things aren't even worth thinking about. As if "sure we all have to make a living" is a good enough excuse to not even consider the implications of it all. So there.

I never knew he was a comic artist. I presume that's why he left Low?

 

[Jerry Twig]

Amy Schumer's Trainwreck.

 

[Theseus Mock]

Do artists who take money for ads really poison and pervert their songs?

Defunct Dublin band The Rags received about €30,000-a-year for licensing their self-released track Monsters & I to Campbell’s Soup in 2006 for a campaign that lasted three years.

 

[ann post]

Do artists who take money for ads really poison and pervert their songs?

Woah.

A real rags to riches story.

 

[rettucs]

Do artists who take money for ads really poison and pervert their songs?

so thats where that anderson fucker managed to get the money to get an orchestra into his garden shed.

 

[rettucs]

I often wonder how much delorentos get for tubridy using part of one of their songs as his jingle

or even whether they know about it, and whether they'd put a stop to it if they did know

and before he moved back to Radio 1 he was using part of a Hal song as his jingle. Again, I wonder if he paid any mula.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I don't mind the smaller bands licencing their music for ads, TV ect.....they need the money.

 

[pete]

I don't mind the smaller bands licencing their music for ads, TV ect.....they need the money.

If a band can't exist exist without money, then the band shouln't exist.

 

[Space]

Licensing your music to earn some money is grand, changing your style for a more commercial sound to make money is selling out.

 

[therealjohnny]

If a band can't exist exist without money, then the band shouln't exist.

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