> The concept of "selling out" interests me, since it's entirely subjective whether or not someone has "sold out" - to my way of thinking, only by allowing people to vampirize your music and use it as the background for commercials is truly selling out.

What about that evil EVIL song "summergirls" by, oh, wht're they called.... i always think of LSD, but that isn't it.... it's some random 3 letters.
the lyrics of the chorus (for those of you who haven't heard it) are:

New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick
And I think its fly when girls stop by for the summer, for the summer
I like girls who wear Abercrombie and Fitch
I'd take her if I had one wish
But she's been gone since that summer

at some other place in the song it says "when i met you i said my name was rich. you look like a girl from abercrombie and fitch." at other places in the song they try to rhyme "sonnet" with "hornet" ( i think) it's just the worst song.... the lyrics make no sense, it sounds like they just wrote down a bunch of rhymes and made up lines for the words. and abercrombie and fitch is in there TOO MANY TIMES. i always expect them to rhyme it with something besides "rich" or "wish"... anyway, i think that song is selling out

uni"and now it's stuck in my head. noooo"peg