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What is Sell Out?

A band that betrays their original purpose for making music in order to make more money. MTV happens to be the cause of most sell outs, making bands worry about their music videos and wether or not they can get them on MTV. A sell out band has to have 3 things happened.
1.)Complete change in style of music
2.)Aired on MTV every day
3.)ALL ABOUT THE MONEY

What is a sell out band?
Green Day - went from punk rock to political "punk" in order to bring in the big money that their other albums failed to do

What is NOT a sell out?
Good Charlotte- A band that from the begining wanted to make maeninful music and continues to due so, despite the critisim they recieve every day from people who claim good charlotte to be "pop punk posers"

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Sell Out - video

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Sell Out - what is it?

V. What Metallica does for every concert they play

Jason Newsted: "We're definitely sell outs. We sell out every concert we play."

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What does "Sell Out" mean?

When a family member consistently blows off her family to go hang out with their friends.

I only drove 4 hours away from home to see my family to know my cousin Bridget was being a Sell Out and hanging out with her retarded friends all week.

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Sell Out - what does it mean?

A person who abandoned his or hers team

Anthony abandoned us and was a ball hog he's such a sell out

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Sell Out - meaning

usually a band, that changes despite everything it has even gone against, said, and done.

Mettallica, period.

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Sell Out - definition

I've seen a lot of definitions so far that arent really correct. But quit a few of them are right on point. A sell out is a person or person(s) that change to become more successful . It can also mean to conform to suit someone else.

An unpoppular band that someone likes may call that band a sell out when everyone starts liking them. Often it is these people who sold out when they became popular.

People also concider people such as bands, actors, actresses, and other icons ETC sellouts when they become very successful and popular. It seems the only way people can avoid selling out is to not become successful and unloved by people.

People who call others sellouts never think that these people who are accused of selling out to make money came it said business' to become successful in the first place.

The people who often concider people to be sellouts are often jealous assholes who want what they have.

See jealousy

The black eyes peas were concidered sell outs after changing one of their songs from "Lets Get Retarted" to "Lets get it Started" to fit the wants of their record lable and whinney bitches who felt offended.

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Sell Out - slang

when a band or something abandons what theyre viewed as and change to a more higher paid stream where they satisfy posers and mainstream jockies and concert invaders who only know 2 or 3 songs claiming to be huge fans

Person 1: Ugh Kings of Leon are such sell outs!
Person 2: Right!, you win a Grammy and get on the radio and then continue with horrible music.

Guy: Hey have you guys heard "Tighten Up" on the radio? I Love The Black Keys, i bet they'll win that grammy.

Person 1 & 2: NOOOOOOO! Not The Black Keys!

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Sell Out

Compromising your integrity, usually for money. Its that simple. This word is mostly used to describe bands that go mainstream.

Green Day aren't sellouts because despite their recent popularity, they never changed their sound. They were just never very good...

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Sell Out

Not just someone who sells out their music.....also can be used when friends backstab you, or ignore their own self imposed belief system of morals and ethics and do something that they never ever said they would.

'But he said wouldn't'
'Yeah well he's a fucking sellout'

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Sell Out

1. In the eyes the very newest members of any band's fanbase: any band after any album they release; that same band once they work hard and earn the respect of a large-scale audience by giving the world music various types of people can enjoy. "HOW DARE THEY BE SUCCESSFUL? THE SELFISHNESS OF IT ALL! I WANT THEM TO BE BANKRUPT AND MISERABLE AND COMPLETELY UNKNOWN, THAT WAY I CAN RECOMMEND THEM TO PEOPLE WHO TELL ME 'Nah, I'll pass.' !"

2. A nonsensical term slung about by high school students to describe bands they have no true interest in (only their t-shirts) after the band released an album said fans were not even born early enough to experience. see also: False aging/wisdom/experience in a teenaged body

3. A band that truly is only in the music industry for the money see also: Metallica/Slayer/Tool/Avenged Sevenfold

4. A fan who is truly only in a fanbase for the sheer trendiness.

STEVE: "My kid brother's really into Metallica."
GREG: "Really? That sounds rich! Hey Alex, what did you think of Death Magnetic?"
ALEX: "Oh my fucking God, don't even get me started on that bunch of sell out nerds with a clear opera fetish! Trust me man, I was at their very first show back in nineteen-eighty-whatever and take my word for it: they haven't made a good album since Ride the Lightning, which was WAY better on vinyl, by the way!"
GREG: "Um, Alex, you were born in 1996. Records are obsolete and no one even makes record players anymore."
ALEX: "What's you point, faggot?"

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