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Originally Posted by WHOREOHSCOPE

If they really wanted money they'd take it to a whole nother level ------- they could easily have done that at the point when they had suddenly caught alot of people's attention back in the 90's right after doing Jet Set which was setting into the possibility of just what your saying but... they made Washing Machine with songs that had the pretty lengthy songs... and a thousand leaves and NYC G+F and while the first two are very tonal and a bit of the latter is tonal and their last 2 releases before rather ripped were very tonal(which is also tonal)- I don't think majority of the people out there would really emerse themselves in songs that span over 6 minutes unless they are into jam bands which Sonic Youth have leanings toward as of late... which isn't a very popular category of music at this point in time? so what does money have anything to do with it?? if it was really about the money... I think they'd of gone in a totally different direction...- they pretty much cast off MTV after Diamond Sea-- and that was their chance for the money .....

no no no... they started selling out their sound in the mid 80's. From Evol they progressively grew more rock based and tonal. They made Daydream Nation a rock success, the perfect balance of rock and a hint of artiness to please everyone.

why do you think they still make records? Why do you think they go off on their own and make cool little noise EPs and underground stuff but always come back. They need the money to support themselves when their doing those little noise projects...