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Originally posted by nightbreed
juggalos are mindless consumers who represent nothing but stupidity, blatant ignorance, and mindless banality. you think your indie? yeah right. watch "the merchants of cool", its a documentary about giant corperations and youth culture. about being programmed. and i assure you that your "psychopathic family" has a nice little chunk of the 2 hours devoted to them. listen to some real music. psychopathic is a fucking franchise. if violent j took a nice warm shit in a hat and slapped a hatchet man on it i garantee one of you morons would buy it. sure maybe those fools were underground back in the day of riddlebox, but after milenko dropped those fools became a household name, their raps went soft, and they started pushing more merch than martha stewart. ahem- sold out.
check this out. whoever disagrees i dare any of you to stop listening to psychopathic for like 2 months. stop wearing the gear and all that for like a month and a half. i promise when you start listening to it again youll be like "what the fuck?". youll realize how much of a brainwash it all is.
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I disagree with you completely. For someone so educated on the subject of selling out, you might want to do a little more research on what the artists themselves think. ICP in particular have laughed at P.R.'s exploitation of their image, on shot glasses, comics, dolls, stickers, shirts and the like. But have you never sat and thought of the role of said record company? It's to market the artist in anyway possible to get more people to buy. Yes, it happens. And yes, it sucks. But to pinpoint one group out of the millions of others that go through the same thing as a sole reason to not support them, that's just asinine. That's like not supporting any musician that believes in microphone usage.
If ICP hadn't signed on with P.R., they'd not be where the are today (which despite your obvious distaste for them, is fairly successul). Sure, merchandising and "selling out" is the lower side effect of signing to a label. But the benefit of being rich and fmous sometimes outweighs that cost.
Speaking purely in the form of music (all merchandise aside), ICP, Twiztid and other artists on P.R. are extremely entertaining which, despite all attempts to argue against, is just mine (and millions of others) opinion. You can't argue with the FACT that music is entertainment. So despite your half-ass'd argument on the duo selling out, I still find them entertaining at the base.
As a side note: you picked a strange band to label "sell out". After all, these multi-gold/plat artists are one of the few I can think of with little to no airplay, beit video or radio. In the music world, selling millions and making it onto the charts without video/radio is extremely rare.