Sell-out with us

You probably know how much success we've had in the first 10 months of the new style Hardcore Effect.

Especially of note was our anti-advertising attitude and refusal to allow sponsorship to skew our opinions. Well, we've been approached twice now to turn the site into a coloumn or feature in some second rate publications. This is great, so why didn't we?

Is it our integrity? Sadly, not. Its because all these offers did not involve us getting paid, so I'm going to dispel a myth. We do need to eat, so if you require us to write for your magazine on such a scale, please bear in mind that just because we do this for nothing doesn't mean thats totally by choice.

and essentially, we're whores that would eat children for a few grand extra a year.