Is SPIN really circling the drain?

that review was way too long

did this thread title invent hashtags?

I don't think that was the original title

well then what happened

@spinreviews

Revisionist history is the best history

sometimes the original author didn't know what they really wanted the title of a thread to be, that's why we have mods, to decide what thread titles should actually be

Mostly well put iatee.
I'll clean it up in edit though, don't worry.

i really like the new issue -- i have a couple critical thoughts about it too but i dunno if whiney would take it as mean or goon thread drama-ish to air them on the thread

he can take it. you know you wanna.

From the "Get SPIN" page:

SPIN magazine's new, upsized format and premium quality paper stock place the emphasis swuarely on the core elements of the title over it's 26-year history, long-form features, criticism, and photography. Published siz times a year, each issue focuses on a broad theme that speaks to the people, scenes, and culture surrounding music.

Will you please hire me as an online copy editor?

Siz Issues Of SPUN Per Year.

Whiney is it too soon for me to pitch you again?

not if you call him Whitney

i really like the new issue -- i have a couple critical thoughts about it too but i dunno if whiney would take it as mean or goon thread drama-ish to air them on the thread

― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you also find some positive things to say, i'm sure this would be fine.

SPIN magazine's new, upsized format and premium quality paper stock place the emphasis swuarely on the core elements of the title over it's 26-year history, long-form features, criticism, and photography. Published siz times a year, each issue focuses on a broad theme that speaks to the people, scenes, and culture surrounding music.

Will you please hire me as an online copy editor?

― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahaha, well, I'm hoping that's all gonna be fixed in the next 24 hours...

Whiney is it too soon for me to pitch you again?

― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just flagged this post... ;)

matte finish on a mag that's been glossy since issue #1? fucking bold choice I gotta say. I'd worry about airport buyers not feeling matte stock but who knows really. I'll be buying this to show support but I want to extract a blood oath here that when SPIN does a metal article it won't be Metal From Williamsburg? Amazing! like all the other non-metal coverage of metal at present

Serious question: are you guys still doing those nifty iTunes mixtape things where you give us a code to download a bunch of songs to our devices for free?

forgive me whiney for i am

https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/SM/SPM/6for6issues.jsp?cds_page_id=114163&cds_mag_code=SPM&id=1330573204198&lsid=20602138412022983&vid=2&cds_response_key=I1201NL

linking to a $6 subscription.

might or might not work, considering i just jumped on it.

6

6 dollar

6 dollar spin subscription

what are the dimensions of the magazine

in, say, feet

140 characters

idk I feel like I'd rather spend the extra $4 to know my credit card # is going to a legit website

hxxps://w1.buysub.com

Sincere apologies for not being familiar with buysub.com/its legitimacy/who runs it

rosicrucians iirc

if i ever got paid i might be able to afford to buy an issue. #joeks #exceptnotreally

If I sub today will I start w Jessie j issue or the next one? Coz I kinda wanna buy and ish and/or sub today but don't wanna get stuck w double issues and a wasted $6

you're gonna want 3 copies of the Jessie J issue: one in the crib, one in the whip, and one in the plastic because it's a classic

anyway whiney as for what i was saying upthread -- on a positive note i liked the whole concept of the issue, the old school Spin-ish redesign and tying that into nostalgia in music, and that whole infographic of different retro movements through the decades was awesome.

2 things that i thought were lame:

- in the section with big full-page concert photos with commentary by the photographers (which i never really liked anyway, was kinda surprised it wasn't tossed out in the redesign), the photog who took the Rick Ross picture being all "he was sooooo big and scary, i thought he was going to hurt me!" was so NAGL i was like there's no way they ran this by Whiney, he would not have let that slide

- having a giant multi-page article all about how its subject has 'mystique' because they refused to give an interview unless they were put on the cover of the issue was just sad, y'all shoulda either took the bait and put Danny Ocean on the cover or just shitcanned the whole article

the photog who took the Rick Ross picture being all "he was sooooo big and scary, i thought he was going to hurt me!" was so NAGL

haha yeah I lol'd at this too

shoulda put Billy Ocean on the cover amirite

haha i actually meant to say Billy Ocean and fucked up my own joke

i am totally going to use this thread instead of letters to the editor once my sub kicks in

dear spin,
when r yeahyeahyeahs coming out w/ new album? also maybe bring ultragrrrrrrl back?

new ultragrrrl columns would be full of depressed, nostalgic longing for 2005: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ozxlw/iama_woman_who_was_once_considered_one_of_the/

dear spin,

http://i.imgur.com/CF6Lb.jpg

thank you

idk I feel like I'd rather spend the extra $4 to know my credit card # is going to a legit website

― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:18 (8 hours ago) Permalink

yeah, it was a direct link from the spin email newsletter which they were sending me from my last year's subscription. if you try to sub from the spin website the website is the exact same, just $3 extra.

the david lynch crossover article was kind of interesting but i sort of hated that newfound high-brow tone in which spin/writers didn't feel they needed to establish anything. i just kept reading line after line waiting for some sort of description as to how it all relates but was mostly culling information from other sources and experience (i.e., already knowing lana del ray's schtick and sound)

nonetheless, it succeeded in making me realize how this is actually a "phenom" and kind of made me sick to be such a vehement david lynch fan in my, from this point, past life

oh, irony

hey whiney the reader for this old Ward Sutton strip about Davy Jones is fucked up, it just keeps reloading the second and third panel over and over

http://www.spin.com/#gallery/cult-cartoonist-ward-suttons-most-memorable-encounter-monkees-davy-jones?image=1

also, the entire presentation of the story is fucked up on principle, it is moronic to present something designed to be read as whole pages chopped up into two-panel chunks, have a look into that, thanks

Getting around to this new issue and I really like it, but I got a cheap subscription on my Nook so I've yet to see a physical issue. The content is great, but that light blue font in the "Guide" section is next to impossible to read on a tablet.

Anyway, not to sound like I'm bitching, because overall I'm pretty impressed with this and I congrats to Whiney.

yeah, never thought about it but i imagine a lot of things magazines do with type color/font that works fine on paper would be a headache on a tablet or ereader

ipads have all the colors

if i were whiney i would never come back to this thread in a million zillion years. i would walk away as if it were a bad dream. and then go buy a cherry pie.

if we just write articles in this thread will whiney print them in spin magazine