The Who's The Who Sell OutReleased in the U. S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire the album sold well, but not spectacularly [and was] ultimately a nostalgic in joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying its in joke status was its unapologetic Englishness; 13 tracks stitched together in a mock pirate radio broadcast, without a DJ, with cool, anglocentric commercials to boot. In the