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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen
They plainly started just chasing the dollar. No more forays into the experimental; the adventurous spirit was abandoned entirely and they became straightout arena rockers. Lame.
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That's not selling out. That's losing creative energy. "Selling out" is appearing in JCPenny ads, it's collaborating with boy bands, its doing all the bull**** that is so prevalent in the music industry today. That's one thing I always thought was unnecessary about Led Zeppelin: they went to extremes to avoid being called sellouts (not selling singles, not licensing their songs for ****, etc). Jack Black actually had to beg to get Immigrant Song on School of Rock. But that's how they wanted it.
The Who certainly don't deserve being called sellouts, no matter how many poor albums they produced.