Tuesday, 22 April 2025

The Age of the Double Sell-Out

quote [ Pop was good, he argued, precisely because it was an industrially manufactured product. This new critical ideology soon crystallized into an "anti-anti-sellout movement" known as “poptimism,” which gave fans of sophisticated culture blanket permission to engage with things made explicitly for profit. ]

An article arguing that even oughties sellouts had more soul than the current "sprawling network of micro-QVCs pumping out low-quality goods".

thumb is Clawmarks.
[SFW] [business] [+1 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@8:40pmGMT]

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