Opinions: What does "selling out" mean?

[antipode]

Sgt. Jokes.

Exactly what Pistonsbeneath just said, although it would be hard to prove. Say I produced Roots Dub, then suddenly I get into the filthy tearout stuff and make a ton of money, I could just tell you I wanted to progress musically.

thats degeneration not progression

[rob sparx]

On one end, it could be compromising artistic vision to be more commercial.

There is compromise in music on all sorts of levels - writing music your audience likes, writing music the label you want to get released on likes or the djs you want to play your music etc

In a way you could say dubstep was created out of compromise - some of the originators wanted to write DNB it didn't work out for them, they moved on and created a new scene with different music. Compromise can be a good thing

I've got lots of different artistic visions some of them underground/progressive some of them commerical but good music with a bit of soul not cringeworthy cheese, provided your writing music thats popular which you enjoy should be called selling in not selling out

[Basic A]

Selling out :

1 . Promoting a watered down version of what you love to a group of people who will not respect/value the music the way you would, rather wear it as a badge of undergroundy-trendy-coolness, purely on thge motivation of being famous or making money.

2 . Generally having your merchandise sold in HotTopic retail outlets.

[hendramarshall]

2 . Generally having your merchandise sold in HotTopic retail outlets.

where cool and other good ideas go to die...

edit: a good example- http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/WhatsN ... 993617.jsp