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Originally Posted by explosions-in-my-pants
i'm not saying that kurt was a dummy by any means.Signing a big record label does not make them a sell out. I know kurt or anyone in the band or there friends they had before the band went big had any clue about how popular they would get. But he had to have known that they would have recieved some form of popuality through music video's and radio air-play. they didn't sell out and kurt was a good writer, but him knowing what he was getting into, no that makes no sense, cause clearly he did not or he wouldn't have went with such a big label after seeing what labels have done to other bands in the past, is he a dunmmy? no i think not.. did he do dumb things? yes he did.. for what reason? god knows. dig him up and ask him...
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Kurt knew what he was doing. His freinds, like Tobi Vail, all thought he was a sell-out for signign with Geffen, and Kurt coiuld barely face them, after he spent years touting the punk rock ethic with and around them for so long, "Ill never sign with a major, thats so sell-out!" that was so un-punk rock.
when Kurt signed to a major, he lost every freind in the punk rock community he hung with. It was a major no - no thing to do, and he did it anyway.
Sure he sold out.