Why do people call bands like Fall Out Boy and Good charlotte "Sellouts"? (hardcore, fan)

Alfred · 03-13-2008, 12:37 PM

Or maybe it's because selling out has a lot to do with punk.

mark1990celtic1888 · 03-13-2008, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

When someone says 'Fall Out Boy' sold out what they actually mean is 'Two years ago they were my favourite band and now I realise how shit they really are & now I have to say something to save face , so if I say they sold out it means I can get away with liking their early stuff , even though that stuff is just as bad as what they are doing now'.

You can look it up in the dictionary under 'Green Day effect , The'

Green Day always have to be surrendered to inconclusive views. Green Day cant do nothing right, and why do you have to bring them up?

Alfred · 03-13-2008, 12:40 PM

Green Day fanboy strikes again.

CityLightsLikeRain · 03-13-2008, 12:41 PM

I saw Against Me! mentioned earlier in the thread. When I hear their stuff on the "alternative" station in michigan I get depressed.

Good Charlotte already lost most of their fandom. And Fallout Boy is fading slowly. Their reign of teenage angst will soon come to an end.

**Urban Hatemonger** · 03-13-2008, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mark1990celtic1888

Green Day always have to be surrendered to inconclusive views. Green Day cant do nothing right, and why do you have to bring them up?

Well done on finding the only 2 or 3 times i've mentioned them in about the past 2 years

rockalternativeindiepunk1 · 04-07-2008, 05:01 PM

Should Fall Out Boy and Good Charlotte be in the punk section of music banter?

**Urban Hatemonger** · 04-07-2008, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Alfred

I have a question. Why is this in the punk section?

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

To annoy people

there

**boo boo** · 04-07-2008, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

screw you dookie pwns

Yeah. Only album from them I really like though.

Its not that I think they sold out, its just that while their stuff was cool when they started out, its boring to hear them do the same crap like 15 years later.

Davey Moore · 04-07-2008, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by tjtech12

"Selling out" implies that one has abandoned the values and morals they claimed to believe in order to gain something more superficial. In the sense of a band, it means they changed their sound/ethics to make more money. Anti-Flag sold out. But I don't get why the aforementioned bands "sold out" since they never showed even the slightest evidence of ethics or integrity?

I don't think they are sellouts, I just think they are trash. Also, selling out in music is the same as jumping the shark in TV, that's how I see it.

Inuzuka Skysword · 04-07-2008, 05:34 PM

Anything Green Day or Fall Out Boy has done has been crap. Neither did anything original at all and I have yet to find an ounce of soul in their music.

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03-13-2008, 12:37 PM
Alfred California Über Alfred Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 984	Or maybe it's because selling out has a lot to do with punk. __________________ I was young too, I felt just like you, hated authority, hated all my bosses, I thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say, if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself, "What do you really want?"

03-13-2008, 12:40 PM
Alfred California Über Alfred Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 984	Green Day fanboy strikes again. __________________ I was young too, I felt just like you, hated authority, hated all my bosses, I thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say, if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself, "What do you really want?"

03-13-2008, 12:41 PM
CityLightsLikeRain Sunsetter Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Detroit, MI Posts: 1,064	I saw Against Me! mentioned earlier in the thread. When I hear their stuff on the "alternative" station in michigan I get depressed. Good Charlotte already lost most of their fandom. And Fallout Boy is fading slowly. Their reign of teenage angst will soon come to an end. __________________ ...I think I ate your chocolate squirrel...

04-07-2008, 05:01 PM
rockalternativeindiepunk1 Groupie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 29	Should Fall Out Boy and Good Charlotte be in the punk section of music banter?

04-07-2008, 05:34 PM
Inuzuka Skysword Anarcho-Capitalist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 953	Anything Green Day or Fall Out Boy has done has been crap. Neither did anything original at all and I have yet to find an ounce of soul in their music.