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Old 02-19-2008, 08:07 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Unlike a lot of people here, I like Fall Out Boy to a certain degree. It's kinda my guilty pleasure.
My guilty pleasure is ridiculous power metal, a la Dragonforce.
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Old 02-19-2008, 11:36 PM   #12 (permalink)
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My guilty pleasure is ridiculous power metal, a la Dragonforce.

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Old 02-20-2008, 01:12 AM   #13 (permalink)
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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'
Don't bitch about Green Day. They've been around long enough, so if they want to make their music more commercialized, I say let em.

The band's sound is O.K to my ears and I don't buy their new stuff, so I feel no shame in calling myself a (gulp) fan.

Altough them playing on American Idol was the biggest sell-out performance in human history...
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Old 02-20-2008, 05:16 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Their "American Idiot" album got me into Punk rock, and I still enjoy it, even if only for nostalgia's sake.
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Old 02-20-2008, 05:39 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Don't bitch about Green Day. They've been around long enough, so if they want to make their music more commercialized, I say let em.
That's the thing - it isn't more commercialized. Everyone just seems to love pretending that Dookie wasn't poppy.
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Old 02-21-2008, 07:25 PM   #16 (permalink)
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It's greenday's fault we have lame bands like falloutboy and goodcharlotte.
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Old 02-23-2008, 03:21 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I don't really think that they are sell-outs at all, I just think they are horrible horrible bands
where would most people go to get there merch (hats, shirts, patches, cds, jackets blah blah)?
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yep they sold out
and horrible in my opinion
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Old 02-23-2008, 03:38 PM   #18 (permalink)
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It's not like these bands announced they were out to do anything more than get money in the first place. They didn't have any morals or ideals to sell out on. I think people, particularly in the punk scene, throw around the world sell out far too much and use it as an insult for everything when most bands they apply it to never really sold out because they were never anything more than an outfit to make money. Sure, bands like Against Me! and Anti-Flag deserve to be called sell outs all they want because they actually did but Good Charlotte? Were they ever all DIY OR DIE!? Did they ever play anything more than lame pop-rock made for angsty preteens? Nope.
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Old 02-23-2008, 03:47 PM   #19 (permalink)
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you have an interesting point, im going to remember that
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Punk is an attitude as much as a genre. If it is used to sell records then it is'nt Punk.
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