Okey, I'm now getting tired about this talk about they doing it for just the money.
Well, sure the money is in it, it is in all artists, without money you can't go nowhere. They are musicans and still want to prove themself to do new things. And with the money they can do much more. Without the big money ZooTV, Popmart and Vertigo tour wouldnt be possible. They took chances(Popmart). I don't know why people are so negative. U2 are one of the few old groups that still renew themself, you can't compare each album to another.
When you have so much money that the band have, the money donsnt do much differnece any more. They have give away alot of them to charity, they have use a lot of them to do new things. And ofcoure they earn new money when they succed in new things. As usaly it is the same old jealous who comes up. They have millions of fans screaming for new releases, should they dissapoint them and say "no we don't want any money anymore"? Fans are telling them to release that and that show on dvd, cd... And they still don't do that. They try to release at least one thing for each new tour, wich I think is kind to the fans. (2002 best of, 2003 Slane, 2005 Chicago, 2006 ZooTV).
It is because of us they still in the game, blame us for buying the records(the funny thing is that people that are saying that they sellout still buying their records).U2 is one of the few artists that accept that cd is downhill in sales and try new things.
Well if the rumours is right the new album is going to be more acustic, well that concept isnt to much off a sellout.