If we all kept music to ourselves like these elitists imply, I doubt the many music genres that exist today would even be around. These people in hoarding things ' underground' call for their death. Oh, if only every band could be blessed with such number one fans. What angers me most about such elitists is the depths of their own record collection. These people are repressing their pasts.
Bands have the ability to define their own success.
Fans do not have input into that process the way a stockholder does for a company. Its just the artist, losing money on tours instead of raking it in, playing their heart out for you, deciding what it means to be a successful musician. While the women's department manager at Sears isn't a sell out for working his way up the corporate ladder, the band is for making its way up the Billboard chart. Bands should be able to do what they need to make them happy and successful, however they choose to define it. Just as an underground political group hopes to one day take the country for its own, an underground band will not always stay that way.