Nirvana were already servants of commercial rock "long before they became popular": skimping on opening acts, refusing to play unless they were headliners, and the like. Jonathan Poneman, of Sub Pop, affirms that Cobain spent the day grumbling like a grandmother with chilblains because Bleach was not selling "millions of copies", when they were already going for 50,000 (something that by itself was a kind of miracle). And there's no need to recall the blatant hypocrisy of Cobain himself, who was sporting Corporate Rock Still Sucks T-shirts on MTV while pocketing petrodollars from Nevermind, #1 worldwide.
Nirvana were already servants of commercial rock "long before they became popular": skimping on opening acts...
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Jonathan Reed
He said he barely saw any money from Nevermind but bought a $1.48 million house in Seattle. Go figure
Samuel Morgan
well he did kill himself because of the contradiction of wanting to be alternative and famous at the same time
Justin Carter
You sound a lot like a communist, OP
Ayden Lee
>Cobain himself, who was sporting Corporate Rock Still Sucks T-shirts on MTV
He literally never did that
Jeremiah Lopez
wasn't MTV independent back then? they werent owned by Viacom or anything
Thomas Hernandez
nirvana sold a slacker ideology to young people while being successful due to relentlessly striving for it
Mason Martinez
i'm not, retardd. i0m just pointing the idiocy of diy and the alt indie scene
Liam Myers
reminder that Soundgarden had a hit album in 1989 and Alice in Chains had a hit album in early 91 before Nevermind
Kayden Hill
>you MUST pay your opening acts a wage WE say is fair
>you MUST play our show as an opener
>you MUST be satisfied with 50k units sold
>you MUST not participate in society or you support oil wars
sure looks that way
Jaxson Sanchez
he's pointing out hypocrisies on a band that preached they didn't want to be famous. go back to your containment board
Benjamin Morris
why are you TYPING like such a complete autist
Juan Long
>on a band that preached they didn't want to be famous
lol, such a nothing statement. i think you zoomers just take shit that sounds good in your head and blurt it out like its nothing. kurt said he regretted getting famous after getting famous, thats about it. he also preached originality over anything. besides, those points are total non-sequiturs to that. not wanting to be famous = not wanting money?
>ad hominem
ill take that as you conceding
Robert Nguyen
No, instead he did on the cover of rolling stone, and he claimed he wanted in utero to be less polished but then re-recorded the album to make it poppier. He was a hypocrite. He was also a “feminist” who threatened to kill and rape a girl who was going to call him and courtney heroin addicts in an article she was writing (which they were)
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dumbest thing i’ve ever heard, he killed himself because he was a junkie, his wife was a junkie, he was cheated on a hundred times, him and his wife were splitting up, his kid was probably going to get taken away, and he had a fascination with joint the 27 club and knew he’d be immortalized, he literally didn’t have jack shit for songs left when he died, he was starting from scratch, most of his tracks were written before nevermind even came out, you know youre right was dogshit, but maybe the finalized version would’ve been better, either way, his band didn’t seem like they were in a good state, and he fired everyone before he even died and said he was keeping the nirvana name but replacing the members
Levi Rodriguez
Cobain must be one of the most uninteresting famous people that died at a young age. Just a complete junkie who was also handsome, also not talented
Landon White
see > kurt said he regretted getting famous after getting famous
Didn't he put enough work in to be recognized? Didn't he appear in magazine covers willingly? Didn't he give interviews and show up for every single concert with no contest?
Didn't he seek renown, credible producers of rock music at the time?
Didn't he say he wanted to be a part of the biggest band in the world?
>not wanting to be famous = not wanting money?
There were plenty enough bands around him that weren't as famous and got enough money to still be around today. If he wanted money and no fame, maybe he should've gone to art school instead like he wanted to
Chase Ward
absolute retard arguing over nothing. youd put a better use of your time into watching paint dry. what a dumb thing to care about. yes lets all ponder over Kurt Cobain's wishes
Elijah Anderson
what wishes? it’s literally true
Brandon Evans
he wrote maybe 20 times if not 30 times as many good songs as Hendrix or Joplin or Morrison
Angel Gray
>Get me away from her!
Nathan Moore
saying things i never said. lack of reading comprehension and/or nice strawman
Gavin James
>tfw you put your dick inside Courtney Love unironically
I would have buckshot mouthwash too desu
Brayden Sanders
>Doing shit that pisses off your manager and the people you work with is "being corporate"
It's just being a self-absorbed dickhead. And anyway what do you want to do about this? Dig up the would-be troon's body and ask it to apologize to you for "selling out"?
Levi Rivera
Based
Xavier Roberts
How about a buckshot facelift?
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