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1st off, coming from an ex professional musician (ok, I didnt make a million doing it, but it paid the rent and the car payment), there is no such thing as a sellout... Its a really stupid term that makes no sense... Who the hell wants no one to like them and for people to NOT appreciate their work???

As soon as a band changes there sound a little and tries to move in a new direction, all the fans start screaming 'SELLOUTS'... What exactly does that mean anyway? You've made a little template for what my music is supposed to be , and if I don't follow it, and my sounds don't sound EXACTLY like the last album, i'm a sellout. Do you know how boring it is playing the same style, the same sound OVER and OVER and OVER again is, and these guys have been doing it for better than 20 years now, don't you think some actual growth as musicians should occur?

I heard the EXACT same stupid comments when the metallica Black album came out. It didnt sound anything like 'And Justice for all', so all the hardcore Metallica fans starting yelling 'Sellouts'.. Same thing with Load and Reload, then again when they did 'Garage Days 2' and the Album with the orchestra.

Who exactly did they sellout to?? Its not like they're doing NSync songs. St. Anger sounds more like their earlier stuff than any of their last 4 albums if you ask me, but still they're sellouts?

Sorry Im raving about this, but people screaming 'sellout' EVERY SINGLE TIME a new album comes out really gets on my nerves, and it doesnt make any sense. By that argument, a band is only true to it's form if they write in 1 vein of music only, and never sway from that pattern at all. If you ask me, that would make for some shitty music. Just as people mature when they get older, so do bands. They change, they have children, they mature, and their music styles and tastes change.

Someone called our band a sellout when we started writing better songs and alot more people started coming to our shows. What use was their in writing shitty songs that no-one likes or wants to hear?? If you want to write your own music to fulfill your own musical desires, theres not really any point in ever playing outside your bedroom. This is a job for those guys, not a hobby. Everyone wants to be good, and to be successful at what they do..

I don't really like the album either, but I don't like the ignornace inherent in the use of the word 'sellout' even more!!! (Not attacking you personaly, that word just really annoys me)

And how could you not call RATM sellouts if you really feel that way?? There new stuff doesnt sound ANYTHING like their old stuff, and they got Chris Cornell for god's sake! LOL.. THats like Public Enemy getting Julio Igalesias as a front man!