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YO Tony stood me up to be with some white chick. Hes a fucking sell out!
by anonymous24 January 23, 2008
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A band or singer who alters their original style of music in order to appeal to a wider audience and to make more revenue for their music, sometimes promoting it to various forms of media, including radio and advertisements.
Examples of bands and singers considered sell outs:

Metallica
Korn
Limp Bizkit
AFI
Fall Out Boy
Rolling Stones
Green Day
Avril Lavigne
U2
by renegadesoldier September 13, 2008
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A sellout is someone who has discarded his or her original principles, in turn for Money and Fame, most sellouts only care about themselves.
Like when Lebron James left Cleveland for Miami, he became a Sell out.
by FormerLebronFan July 10, 2010
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V. What Metallica does for every concert they play
Jason Newsted: "We're definitely sell outs. We sell out every concert we play."
by MrBearJew August 29, 2010
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A band that betrays their original purpose for making music in order to make more money. MTV happens to be the cause of most sell outs, making bands worry about their music videos and wether or not they can get them on MTV. A sell out band has to have 3 things happened.
1.)Complete change in style of music
2.)Aired on MTV every day
3.)ALL ABOUT THE MONEY
What is a sell out band?
Green Day - went from punk rock to political "punk" in order to bring in the big money that their other albums failed to do

What is NOT a sell out?
Good Charlotte- A band that from the begining wanted to make maeninful music and continues to due so, despite the critisim they recieve every day from people who claim good charlotte to be "pop punk posers"
by MTVhAteR December 28, 2005
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One who absconds their heart and soul just to get cold hard cash, only to end up lower and even more poor than before when they blow it all on useless stuff and hookers.
Tyson...the fool blew about $2 million on pet tigers when he could have paid for someone's college education.
by Shawn B. August 17, 2003
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any punk band that signs with a major record lable or make a video for MTV
Green Day, AFI, NFG, GC, Simple Plan, Rancid, and anyband on mtv is a sell out
by parnapy c jones October 25, 2003
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