My veiws on selling out

[oc drunk punk]

:asshole:
some people say that to sell out is to sign with a lable thats a bunch of bull shit to sell out you change what you are as a band becase some rich prick says that this is what is cool. if you are on a major lable you are not a sell out yet but once you change for the big guy then you have you have sold out!
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[Misfit Mike]

some people say that to sell out is to sign with a lable thats a bunch of bull shit to sell out you change what you are as a band becase some rich prick says that this is what is cool. if you are on a major lable you are not a sell out yet but once you change for the big guy then you have you have sold out!>>

. . .OK. . .lets see here. . .

I agree with you, in theory, but lets take a closer look at the situation.

You are right, just because you sign to a major label doesn't mean you've sold out, because if you think about it, all a big label means is that you are good enough musicians that a "big" record company puts faith in you. Way too many people scrutinize the policies of big business, forgetting the important fact: IT'S A BUSINESS! Yes, they are big and multifaceted, yes, they rake in tons of money, but without them many of our favorite bands would never get the recognition they deserve. In many cases, the band "signs" to the label, only to be "put" on one of the subsidiary labels and just distributed though the "mother" business.

OK, I know I went on a tangent, but this is something I've given quite a bit of thought to and feel strongly about.

Now, we label some bands sell outs because they "change" their sound to fit into the "peg hole" of society. Don't any of you stop to think that maybe they were changing their sound anyway, the label caught wind of it, and picked up that band and a few others of the same ilk with in a short period of time so they would have more than one band of a certain genre to promote?

OK, well, I'm done. Weather you agree with me or not, thanks for reading.