I have to tend to agree, in the end, it might be the best way.
Although. I could also see them doing maybe three or four albums and some eps and growing a little, changing it up some each time. But, I can also see them perhaps inevitably getting flatter and duller too over time.
The opening words to Vanessa Briscoe Hay's history of Pylon:
On February 14, 1979 I auditioned to become the singer for the as yet unnamedPylon at the invitation of Randall Bewley, one of my friends from art school. He and his roommate Michael Lachowski, another friend from art school who also worked at Dupont had decided to create a band who would go to New York, play once, get written about in a magazine like New York Rocker and then disband.
For the whole story:
http://www.netnik.com/jollybeggars/pylon.html