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Sell-outs

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    #32
    Mingey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭Mingey


    LeahBaby wrote: »
    Ah would ya's stop I'd dance naked with a man in a gorilla suit for half the money Iggy Pop made to do that advert.

    Money is money.


    The difference is that you are not an artist. You do not write songs and perform about the some issues you have had such as pressures induced through consumerism, then go on to sell a product you couldn't give a hoot about for a few extra bob. It's not as if they haven't enough money in the first place.

    Those butter sales are up 85% too, since Rotten went rancid.


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    #33
    Mingey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭Mingey


    Wagon wrote: »
    Lead singer of The Who.

    Sad about Iggy as well :( I was depressed when i saw the ad.

    vwom! :pac:


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    #34
    melsman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭melsman


    BOFH_139 wrote: »
    +1 for Johnny Rotten.

    Fecking BUTTER Ad, how much more of a sell-out can you be.

    i dunno maybe if he went and did a reality tv show or something......:eek:


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    #35
    dodgyme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭dodgyme


    Mick Lally doing kilmeaden adverts. You could call it the fillet of sellout.


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    #36
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    dodgyme wrote: »
    Mick Lally doing kilmeaden adverts. You could call it the fillet of sellout.

    I wasn't aware of that one, i'll never look at Mick in the same way at all.


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    #37
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    heh heh heh heh.. Know what I love to hear, sound of a penny dropping.

    Goys goys :D welcome to the REAL WORLD.

    These fcukers will do anything to turn a buck,surely,I say again, SURELY yez knew that.

    Do you seriously think all these **** give Jack Schidt about the cause they pimp??

    All about personal promotion goys, I'll say it again PERSONAL PROMOTION.

    Now there may be some honourable exceptions, but goys, get a frikken grip here, it's all about rescuing a failing career, turning a few extra bucks,promoting a book/bar/restaurant/product who pays.

    Goys goys goys.... get a bit real.


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    #38
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Wagon wrote: »
    Lead singer of The Who.

    Who?


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    #39
    dodgyme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭dodgyme


    javaboy wrote: »
    Who?

    Roger Daltry AKA the wedding singer


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    #40
    HercHauk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭HercHauk


    Every Band Ever. And the One's that never sold out broke up. Poison Idea never sold out. FULLSTOP.


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    #41
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,381 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_celebrity_advertising
    Historically, American actors and filmmakers Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, and Audrey Hepburn would appear in Japanese advertisements, while eschewing American ones. More recent celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jodie Foster, who generally avoid publicity in the United States, have been known to do large-scale advertising campaigns in Japan and China.


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    #42
    melsman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭melsman


    HercHauk wrote: »
    Every Band Ever. And the One's that never sold out broke up. Poison Idea never sold out. FULLSTOP.

    eh what you talkin about? greenday never sold out :pac:


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    #43
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    That's Iggy pop in that add? I thought it was a talking leather bag.

    Seriously there should be a law passed to stop him from going shirtless in public or on tv. Some of us are trying to eat ya know.:mad:


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    #44
    HercHauk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭HercHauk


    melsman wrote: »
    eh what you talkin about? greenday never sold out :pac:

    I forgot about them sorry.......there to underground tbh.


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    #45
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    sorry guys, but you sell out as soon as you sign a record contract.


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    #46
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    melsman wrote: »
    eh what you talkin about? greenday never sold out :pac:

    Yeah but they're shít. That's not my opinion either, that's fact. Absolute horseshít.






    Then again, all music is shíte and all musicians are just precious hobbyists. Oh well.


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    #47
    Fad
    Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    HercHauk wrote: »
    Poison Idea never sold out. FULLSTOP.


    Pity they're shíte................:pac:


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    #48
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    It was nicely put in a song in 1980.;) A quote from Spirit Of Radio by Rush.


    One likes to believe in the freedom of music
    But glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity


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    #49
    dodgyme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭dodgyme


    120_Minutes wrote: »
    sorry guys, but you sell out as soon as you sign a record contract.

    U2 were a sell out when they played croke park the last time


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    #50
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    Wagon wrote: »
    Lead singer of The Who.

    ^Wow.
    (It was a joke).


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    #51
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    javaboy wrote: »
    Who?

    Who? Who?!?
    The Who, that's who.


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    #52
    PullMyFinger!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭PullMyFinger!


    LeahBaby wrote: »
    Ah would ya's stop I'd dance naked with a man in a gorilla suit for half the money Iggy Pop made to do that advert.

    Money is money.

    asl?


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    #53
    walrusgumble
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭walrusgumble


    i dont think iggy pop is as minted as everyone thinks. he blew most of his money away on drugs etc. Sure his record sales and popularity hit a heavy slum in the 1980's only to be resurrected by that trainspotting film. i saw a documentary on him 2 years ago. nothing flashy about the lifestyle he lives in now.

    Ay lay off him - they are just bloody songs man. anyone who takes their meaning etc seriously needs a kick in the head, jesus we all need money to eat.

    i am sure though you will get over another disappointment like your hereo "selling out". live with it life can be full of disappointments. just enjoy his songs man


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    #54
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    OP, The problem is, you put people on a pedestal and expect them to cling rigidly to the ideals they once had/you would like them to have.

    I love lots of stuff famous people have done, but at the end of the day I really couldn't give a flying fook what they get up to.

    If you think "selling out" diminishes what an artist creates, then you're not really seeing their art for what it is, but for what you perceive it to be.

    Perfect point is*: Johnny Rotten was part of a manufactured band, as bone fide an artistic endeavour as westlife are. It was ALL fake, all the bile, anger, impudence, all of it. But now people think he's a sell-out for selling butter. please? (Sid Vicious was for real ... and showed the rest of them up for it)

    But does God Save the Queen still rock? Yes, it does.

    *It would have killed me to say all that when I was 19 BTW


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    #55
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,344 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Manic Street Preachers. Going on about their Socialist principles but one visit to their website will tell you that they would sell crack to a five year old.

    Oh, and how much did Che Guevara make from all those badges/posters, eh?


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    #56
    00112984
    Registered Users Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭00112984


    Paddington Bear in the Marmite ads.

    He should be boycotted.


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    #57
    Rebel021
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Rebel021


    Johnny Vegas for pg tips
    NOt for being a sell out but they taste ****


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    #58
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Robbo wrote: »
    Does it roughly equate to the years of abuse she suffered?
    How dare you say that about the man, the myth, the legend that is Bob Marley. He's a hero to stoners everywhere. Without him they wouldn't be able to talk about that time they had some Jamaican chronic.
    LeahBaby wrote: »
    Ah would ya's stop I'd dance naked with a man in a gorilla suit for half the money Iggy Pop made to do that advert.

    Money is money.
    I'd do it for nothing. I'm a whore though.

    Sir Gallagher wrote: »
    You can dress it up all you like selling out is selling out, whatever happened to artistic integrity?

    Every single person everywhere in the world who ever picked up a guitar did so to sell their music, make lotsof money and have sex with lots of people with loose morals. Anyone who tells you differently is a liar.


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    #59
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    Agamemnon wrote: »
    I sold out years ago and now I only post here for money, not to help the hungry or save the fucking polar icecaps.

    This post was brought to you in association with McDonald's. © 2009 McDonald's Corporation - I'm lovin' it

    forgot the © at the end of im lovin it © :rolleyes:

    noob :pac:


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    #60
    Krieg
    Registered Users Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭Krieg


    Thread should be renamed to "Who isn't a sellout?" Tbh


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    #61
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Krieg wrote: »
    Thread should be renamed to "Who isn't a sellout?" Tbh
    That band with five fans. Once they hit six they are officially sell outs.


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