If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio I don't think the second option is some big sellout.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had...
To the degree we're not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.