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Old 02-23-2008, 10:29 PM   #21 (permalink)
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i also agree wiht this
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Old 02-23-2008, 10:46 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Any band that has merchandise at hot topic sold out........if they had like shirts and **** from bands that I actually like for a reasonable price.......yeah I'd shop there but I actually buy stuff from thrift stores now.
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Old 02-23-2008, 10:55 PM   #23 (permalink)
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yeah i tend to avoind buying new clothes, i feel like ive said this alot on this thread but i tned to go to second hand shops asin i agree wiht you
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Old 03-04-2008, 11:57 AM   #24 (permalink)
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fall out boy ARE ****ing sellouts. so are you guys. i just hacked into your piece of **** bitches. go give your transvestite mom a blowjob your ****sucking ***gots. **** **** **** ass **** whore bitch slut pussy now ban me one more time homos

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Old 03-04-2008, 01:34 PM   #26 (permalink)
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fall out boy ARE ****ing sellouts. so are you guys. i just hacked into your piece of **** bitches. go give your transvestite mom a blowjob your ****sucking ***gots. **** **** **** ass **** whore bitch slut pussy now ban me one more time homos

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i wonder if this was the same guy giving me hell a while back
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Old 03-04-2008, 01:52 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Any band that has merchandise at hot topic sold out.......
Marketing is a crucial part of running any business, which is what a band is in part. I think people mistakenly equate a bands increased popularity or success with being a sellout. thats not necessarily so.It's OK to make tons of money in every other career field. Why is music different? Nobody ever points the finger at the record company execs who, in many cases are the only ones getting rich off a bands success.
The whole Green Day plague on MB was annoying cuz' kids were associating GD with punk without any exposure to any other punk bands or any knowledge of the genre's history. Selling out is an artists intentional disregard of musical integrity for the sake of generating more income or widening their audience.
Bob Dylan was called a sellout when he made the great switch from acoustic folk to electric rock in 1965, but it was his artistic license to do. His response to people complaining that he wasn't writing political folk anthems was "write your own anthems". Amen.

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Old 03-04-2008, 02:01 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Iron Maiden used merchandise very well as a marketing tool. It's not the products it's all about whose wearing them and why.
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Old 03-13-2008, 12:29 PM   #29 (permalink)
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I have a question. Why is this in the punk section?
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