10 Legendary Musicians Who Fought Against The Music Business

When talking about the horrors of the music business, you could easily put half of the bands out of Seattle on a list like this. These were bands that were known to always do what they want, and no amount of posing on MTV was going to get in the way of them making the kind of earnest rock music they were raised on. Kurt Cobain may have gone along with the program, and even Chris Cornell may have played up the Led Zeppelin sounds of Soundgarden, but Eddie Vedder was willing to go down swinging with Pearl Jam.

Before they had even gotten to mainstream level, Eddie was already thinking about a slow build, only to have his dreams shattered when everything started to blow up. After they got some severe backlash for the music video for Jeremy, things started to turn a corner, as the band refused to make any more music videos and Eddie only accepting interviews if they were being done by Cameron Crowe. That didn't stop their star from rising though, and Ticketmaster raising their prices was what really set everything in motion.

Taking on the greedy side of the music business, Pearl Jam went to war against Ticketmaster in the next few years, saying that they never wanted to become a band that were a part of the same kind of business that tried to suck the most out of the people who came to see them play. Though Pearl Jam may not have won their war against Ticketmaster, they did walk away with a bit more credibility than the rest of the grunge giants who made it big.