Stereogum has a nice little article writting by Kevin Barnes in response to the backlash over Of Montreal’s Outback Steakhouse and upcoming TMobile commercials. Personally I think the issue’s a dead horse, but Kevin makes some nice points.

From “Selling Out Isn’t Possible,” by Kevin Barnes
Are you a sell out? Yes. Don’t let it bother you though, cause apparently I am also a sell out, and so are your parents and everyone you’ve ever known. The only way to avoid selling out is to live like a savage all alone in the wilderness. The moment you attempt to live within the confines of a social order, you become a sell out. Once you attempt to coexist you sell out. If that’s true, then selling out is a good thing. It is an important thing. If we didn’t do it, we’d be f*cked, quite literally, by everyone bigger than us physically who found us f*ckable.

Read the rest at Stereogum

Of Montreal, the only sellouts who cover ’60s Brazilian psych-pop bands: