RaveNew Noise... those looking for inside baseball on punk, emo, and hardcore’s most (in)famous acts will find plenty to dive into within Sellout ... Throughout the book, Ozzi’s prose is lucid, engaging, and largely objective ... However, where Ozzi’s true strength as a writer and storyteller comes through is in the meticulous construction of chapters, and how these seemingly personal stories gradually lock together to form the backbone of the book’s larger subcultural chronology ... Sellout’s biggest strength is that doesn’t seek to cast judgment on acts for their decision to jump in with the majors ... As Ozzi’s brilliant epilogue serves to illustrate, this period was one of rapid upheaval for the music business ... To have the opportunity to play their music, release records, and bring punk to the masses—with or without major-label support—was always going to be a labor of love, requiring skill, dedication, and unwavering passion. And fittingly, the same could be said for Sellout.
