Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

by Dan Ozzi

Adam Turla, frontman of fellow Eyeball Records band Murder by Death, remembers getting a burned CD-R directly from Rickly after the two bands played a show together at an anarchist bookstore in Turla’s hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. “Somehow Geoff had gotten my address and he showed up at my door at midnight after the show,” he says. “He was like, ‘Hey, we’ve got this new record. I really want you to hear it!’ He handed off a copy of Full Collapse that they’d recorded but wasn’t out yet. He was just so proud of it. I had never heard anything like it. Most of the hardcore and emo that I’d heard had a really different sense of dynamics. The first thing I noticed, as a huge fan of the Cure, was that there were more new-wavy guitar elements, not just the heavy, chugging stuff. It just stunned me. We listened to the hell out of that record.”