Well I'm a parent, and as such, I don't want to criticize how anyone makes their living, so long as they're not hurting anyone. Having a mortgage and college tuition to pay for means you understand comprimise all to well. I don't see a conflict between doing 'commercial' work and underground stuff, as long as you've got your eyes wide open.
Me, I'd remix any commersh tosser's track for cash, and welcome the opportunity. As a lot of people have said, I'd love to sell out, but no one is buying! But it's important to separate what the corporate capitalist system wants you to consume, and what means something real to you. What I find really sad about most people is that their own lives are secondary to what they see on TV. The reason most people will suffer any humiliation to be on television is that they feel like what they see on TV is realer than their own lives. Being underground is taking back the meaning and importance of your own life, work, family, and community from the programmers who want to sell you a shiny glamorous replacement. Those people on the OC ain't shit compared to you and your momma and your sister and your nephew. On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:30:21 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Being > underground is forming interconnected communities of people where the > music and the musicians have unmediated access to their audience." > > So, with this in mind, I still don't see where selling your music as a > product isn't underground, also maybe money from deals such as games > companies, or selling to adverts, helps you maintain unmediated access to > your audience. Only of course if your music remains as you intended it. > > Also, perhaps this is a better way of remaining 'underground' (doing > licensing deals etc), than doing the odd music project to raise cash, or > the odd remix of a dodgy artist to get some money? > > Perhaps. But maybe that's what you're saying anyway. My brain isn't working > so well today. >
