[finding nobody]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I don;t think you know what selling out is if you think that sonic youth releasing a record as melodic and rockin as RR is selling out man.

selling out is compromising your stated values for purely monetary gain. now, what monetary gain are sonic youth getting? what gain at all? they will sell around 100 thousand copies of this album, far less than dirty or goo. they have not released an MTV worthy video and are not on the BUZZ rotation. they have not plastered themselves all over the airwaves. You are lucky if you hear a song off of RR on the college radio.

fucking grow up. for sonic youth, an album like RR IS experimentation. don;t you get it? after 20 years thurston started writing songs based on an acoustic guitar (murray street) after TWENTY YEARS.
to continue in the same standard songwriting form that they perfected over 20 years is pointless for aband like sonic yotuh who treat their existance as an art project and not a BAND.

you have no fucking clue what selling out is.

yes.