Artists 'SELLING OUT' - can we discuss?

Does it make sense to get worked up about a song that was simply performed and not written by the Artist? Like with the Elvis tune, he didnt write many songs himself correct?

Chadnliz, I understand your point now. I do have several copies of VIVA LAS VEGAS that have been performed by many different artists [The Dead Kennedys version is a favorite]. But changing the lyrics for a BONER DRUG ?!!!!

Unclejeff, The Rolling Stones are now a corporate enterprise and stopped being a R&R band years ago. They should only be allowed to perform a concert once a year...at a Halloween house of horrors! Talk about scaring the kids...geez!

..artists have to "sell-out" because they usually get ripped off by their own record companies....;)

IMO: Artists have always "sold" out, nothing new.

I would much rather see artists making money from their craft than have the situation faced by so many of the older black blues musicians. So many of them never had the rights to their music and so received nothing at all, not even royalties from those who would become wealthy much later on from covering their songs._Mrmitch