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02-21-2013, 07:48 AM | #1 |
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02-21-2013, 07:58 AM | #2 |
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i'll piss on soundgarden cause they're in it for teh monay
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02-21-2013, 09:02 AM | #3 |
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Question: "So many people want to take your songs and use them for commercial reasons...advertisements...you know...some call it 'selling out'. Elaborate on why you choose not to do this?"
Billy Corgan at 0:40 >>> |
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02-21-2013, 09:09 AM | #4 |
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Billy Corgan: "I like to sell a lot of records...I like to make a lot of money...to me it's all good BUT....BUT....BUT...but...I will never fucking sell out."
At 2:07 >>> |
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02-21-2013, 09:18 AM | #5 |
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How old is everyone here?
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02-21-2013, 09:51 AM | #6 |
Shut the fuck up!
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what the fuck does "sell out" even mean anymore? This is the band that 20 years ago set out to be "the biggest band in the world." in alt/punk terms THAT is selling out.
isn't it supposed to mean compromising your art for the sake of financial reward? If the music is 20 years old, is it selling out to license it? |
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02-21-2013, 10:02 AM | #7 |
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shut the fuck up, scotty.
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02-21-2013, 10:04 AM | #8 |
Shut the fuck up!
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you must spread some reputation around before giving it to Cool As Ice Cream again
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02-21-2013, 12:01 PM | #9 |
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scotty is right
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02-21-2013, 12:51 PM | #10 | |
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In the context of Billy Corgan, 'selling out' means either abandoning your principles or being a fake from the get-go. |
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02-21-2013, 04:49 PM | #11 |
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God, it's embarrassing that any artist is insecure enough that they have to deny that they will ever "sell out". Just do whatever the fuck you want, it's your words and your music that you created to express yourself. If anyone gets upset about how you choose to use the music that you create, they're too obsessed and emotionally invested in you anyway.
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02-21-2013, 10:08 PM | #12 |
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it's always fucking lame when an artist allows someone to co-opt their work to sell a product in exchange for money. it's embarassing to see SP songs in commercials
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02-21-2013, 10:11 PM | #13 |
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It just seems so strange to me that "I will never fucking sell out" got one of the biggest cheers in that little speech. I'd be really creeped out if I was in that audience.
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02-22-2013, 02:22 AM | #14 |
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Yes, it is precisely that Billy on so many occasions in the past has made a point of expressing his disdain for "selling out" that makes this rather unpalatable and jarring. But I do think Scotty is correct in the sense that writing songs and then letting them be used in commercials after the fact is different than writing songs expressly for commercials.
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02-22-2013, 03:49 PM | #15 |
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02-22-2013, 04:10 PM | #16 | |
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02-22-2013, 05:44 PM | #17 |
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I thought it was a zeitgeist leftover
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02-22-2013, 06:50 PM | #18 |
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no i'm pretty sure it was written for that commercial
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02-22-2013, 11:52 PM | #19 |
Minion of Satan
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nope, it was a leftover track from Zeit sessions.
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02-23-2013, 12:09 AM | #20 |
BOTTLEG ILLEGAL
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well it was only released on the commercial right (and some download on superbowl day?). whatever, close enough to a release via commercial
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02-23-2013, 12:18 AM | #21 |
Minion of Satan
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nah, it was a throwaway. it would never have seen the light of day otherwise (with the possible future exception of a Zeitgeist bonus disc - gulp!) so it was a shrewd move from corgan (itself something of a rarity) to accept cash for something essentially worthless.
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02-23-2013, 02:47 PM | #22 |
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02-23-2013, 02:52 PM | #23 |
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02-23-2013, 03:20 PM | #24 |
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wasn't the Z tracklist a sellout with exclusives to each bigbox store?
billy's a sellout and should be shot in the street like the whore that he is. |
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02-24-2013, 02:57 AM | #25 |
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Sure, the multiple, just-slightly-different releases of the same album was an obvious cash-grab, but things like that are almost always contrived by the record company themselves in order to profit or at least re-coup the cost of advances to the band for studio production, tours, promotional efforts, etc. I'm sure the record company calls and is like, "you got a couple of extra songs there, because we were thinking...?" and then the band is like "Um...ok. We do have a couple demos we had worked on....".
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02-24-2013, 06:50 AM | #26 |
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COME ON AND FEELALO... COME ON AND FEELALO... FEELALO!
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02-24-2013, 12:28 PM | #27 |
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Led Zeppelin has been selling Cadillacs for years. Sell-outs.
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02-25-2013, 12:37 AM | #28 |
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And so has Hum. Fuck dat shiiiyat
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