Sellouts

We all know you’ll work for free!!!

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate the term, because it’s bullsh!t overused by a bunch of snooty duchebags, but seriously:

sellout?

is a term used almost exclusively by bourgeoisie middle class white college kids, and they have attached some sort of mystical power to the word, as though it justifies criticizing any business decision a BUSINESS like Sonic Youth makes. Oh, did you forget they were a business? A corporation? Grow up.

After hearing Thurston go on and on about Gossip Girl between songs at a show last year I decided to try and watch an episode. The ten minutes I was able to bare was all elitist, shallow twenty year olds pretending to be teenagers, really awful. What he gets out of the show is beyond me. It seems to represent the worst of what NYC has become. Big money, no substance.

well, its either this or a state fair i guess.

if sonic youth were 2 sellout why would they wait this long? theyve been around 25 plus years i dont really think they give a crap anymore if thet ever did

just like radiohead they are sellouts

radiohead and new moon i cant think about them in one sentence…

I guess this is a little better than Flaming Lips on 90210, but not much.

Why are musicians the ONLY profession consistently called sellouts? Are they supposed to work for free?

Give them some respect please, ok?

well i do have respect but common you guys

‘GOSSIP GIRL’? are you kidding me?????

interesting

IRONY:

Don’t think about this in terms of selling out… Think about the wonderful irony of it, irony I’m sure Sonic Youth is aware of… The irony is this… How many people who watch Gossip Girl would actually LISTEN to Sonic Youth’s music? People who watch Gossip Girl wouldn’t connect with Sonic Youth, that’s what makes it funny.

I just saw Sonic Youth play a 90 minute concert in Salt Lake City for FREE two weeks ago….Sell Outs, never! There is nothing wrong with a little bit of exposure of Sonic Youth to a bunch of 15 year olds.

I think they are kinda selling out they performed on GG before this so i am not surprised

“just like radiohead they are sellouts

radiohead and new moon i cant think about them in one sentence”

You obviously didn’t hear them in Clueless. You can call them sellouts all you want but Radiohead and Sonic Youth simply don’t give a fuck because they know its the music, not the way its marketed or advertised that matters. If Britney Spears made decent music but was still sponsored by Pepsi and at the top of the charts, I’d listen to her. Because its the music that matters.

I never got over the Doobie Brothers appearing on “What’s Happening?”

so they want 15 year old fans?

didnt knew that were are so desperate….

nothing to do with selling out, just a bunch of cynical underachievers in the comments

Sellout is such a scarlet letter for bands since the 90’s. Music is still business people! Don’t forget that.

So it’s a bad thing that pople who would otherwise never get to here SY now do? How nasty, how selfish..!

they obviously need the money.no one buys there albums. they may as well whore themselves out.