The Concept of Selling Out: Part 1
One of the worst insults you can throw at an artist is to accuse them of \u201cselling out\u201d\u2026the most basic definition is when the pursuit of money compromises, corrupts or otherwise interrupts the pursuit truth and beauty and all the purity and goodness that is supposed to flow from art\u2026\n\nBut that\u2019s an awfully broad definition which can be applied in a billion different highly subjective ways\u2026at one extreme, some people believe that taking money for any kind of art is perverse\u2026at the other, anything and everything has its price, high or low, depending on the circumstances\u2026\n\nAnd the world has changed\u2026making any kind of art costs money\u2026competition for attention among artists have never been greater\u2026and we\u2019d like to thing that great art inevitably and naturally rises to the top, but it just doesn\u2019t\u2026in a true meritocracy, it would\u2026but we all know that\u2019s not true\u2026\n\nAnd ever since the internet started shaping the way we find and consume music, the value ascribed to it\u2014that is, how much we\u2019re willing to pay for it\u2014has dropped to near zero\u2026thanks to streaming and YouTube, almost all the music ever created in the history of humankind is available for free\u2026\n\nBut there are costs to making music\u2026musicians (and those associated with its creation) have a right to make a living\u2026where does the money come from?...\n\nFrom a lot of different places, as it turns out\u2026the sources of this working capital may be distasteful to some, but if you want to be a working musician these days, some creative and philosophical compromises need to be made\u2026\n\nWhat I\u2019m trying to say is that \u201cselling out\u201d ain\u2019t what it used to be\u2026.here\u2026let me show you\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices