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"How Selling Out Saved Indie Rock"
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Re: "How Selling Out Saved Indie Rock"
Nov 17, 2013, 20:58
IanB wrote:
some of you may have already seen this but thought it worth a post ....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicahopper/how-selling-out-saved-indie-rock

I guess the other question is whether 37 years later saving "it" is actually worth the bother. The dividing line for me is probably where indie ceased to be primarily an economic model and became a style to sell stuff with.


I guess I can't really argue with anything in this article (except quibble over the ambiguous use of "indie", vacillating between genre and process/life-experience) but it makes me queasy anyway... trying to play the "what if I were in this position" game (no one is offering me money for anything so it's moot) and mostly all I can think is I hope it would depend on who was offering, what they wanted, what they were going to do with it, and how much. Just like how I decide what I eat, what businesses I support in my day-to-day consumering, etc.
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