Sometimes I go over my friends house, he'll bring me into his computer room and turn on kazaa or whatever, he'll scroll down while telling me about this awesome underground band hes found, click on a song, and I will proceed to cover my ears. I mean, it's shit. Then I will scroll up and turn on a song by a band that's been on MTV, or has had a couple of radio hits, my god it will sound so much better in comparison.
Really, I don't care if something is played on MTV or on the radio, actually that just gets there sound out to more people, gets them heard.
I am not a fan of blink 182, but I would say they are musicians. I seriously doubt that they don't write their own songs, they haven't gotten to that point. I do enjoy some of there songs, but they are nothing I can get really into.
Really I don't care if a band starts to be on the radio and mtv as long as they are doing their thing, and that thing is not playing music just to get popular through TV and radio. I am sick of people talking about sellouts...that word is used too often and with no tact. I am sick of people saying 'that's not really punk man' or 'that's pop-punk'...YOU GUYS SOUND LIKE JACKASSES!!!