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"How Selling Out Saved Indie Rock"
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Citizensmurf
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Re: "How Selling Out Saved Indie Rock"
Nov 17, 2013, 21:48
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.


What would the difference between an economic model and a style to sell stuff be? These seem pretty much the same to me, music of all kinds is marketed and sold, no matter what scale it's on.

I've made this point before, but why is buying an iPhone less of a moral issue than earning money from licensing a song for an iPhone commercial? Somehow, as consumers we are insulated from supporting a large corporation, but someone is a sell-out for taking money from the same company. Does that make any sense? If anything, we as consumers are the sellouts, and someone like Moby should be applauded for making money directly from corporations rather than indirectly via consumers.
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