Like “the only pure music is played in clubs with 15-17 people in attendance and passed around on bootleg cassettes.”

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It’s a little easier to look back at that time with rose colored glasses fitted with lenses forged in today’s more cynical environment, but as much as we’d like to pretend “selling out” at the time meant compromising the art for commerce, it came to feel like something way more restrictive.

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In the 90s it would definitely have been that but it was also like, getting popular at all, signing with a big record label, etc. The excesses of the definition of selling out at that time were the reason why it didn’t stick.

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Yeah there’s definitely a way that it prefigures/informs the types who believe correct politics means being able to cite more obscure theory texts.

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Just saw a FB friend say we should bring back the 90s social stigma around selling out, and I get the impetus but it feels a bit like what’s shorthanded here as woke 1 vs woke 2. Today when people talk about folks selling out, it’s like partnering with brands for exclusive content.

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