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Word: prostitutinghimself (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steve was having credibilityproblems. If Steve was so quick to call bandssell-outs (and even quicker to call themuntalented hacks), what the hell was he doingproducing albums for a bunch of major labelmonstrosities? Steve's answer--that sinceengineering's not an art, he's not prostitutinghimself, but rather extorting major labels withoutgiving a damn about the quality of the music hehappens to be recording--is relatively reasonable,but he's still intuitively branded a sell-out bymany. His position is somewhat undercut by hisdistinctive "engineering" style, which is perhapsthe most influential Albini legacy. Steve tries tomake it sound like...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Steve Albini Primer for the Young Folk | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

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