Guess it means what are you selling out? Assuming you mean integrity there is a very thin line between "selling out" and compromise. Back in the day our band would play three night club gigs that paid well for a bunch of drunks who didn't give a $hit about what we were doing. However, even lesser money at a big festival where folks were attentive and dug our sound was what I enjoyed. To me the club nights were "selling out." However, some other members of the band just wanted to play irrespective of the nature of the crowd and didn't seem to care -- and the money was not a big factor. As my musician stepfather (played in a string band in the 30's) used to say "they have footlights in their eyes."

In a moment of full disclosure I guess I oughta mention that all of us in the band had professional decent paying jobs for which we had a good deal of flexibility with our time. So the "selling out" was not influenced by money. We were a traditional bluegrass band which at the time offered a lot of gigs just being ambient background music for events. I hated that as bad as the clubs. It was at the festivals where you were playing for the aficionados.

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