Is SPIN really circling the drain?

I've tried to look at Whiney's click-through-fest but it keeps bouncing back to the home page, whether I click, ctrl+click or right-click->open in new tab - Invada's most recent listed release for BEAK> is a split LP from August 2011; what's on the Spin list?

A new Beak> record called >>, I assume.

You guys can shit on the list all you want, but if I turn at least one person on to Sinaii, then I feel like I've done my part for the year!
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:35 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In that case consider your job done! Phenomenal record.

A new Beak> record called >>, I assume.

― hot knives, wind was blowin' (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:36 (10 hours ago) Permalink

:) it is

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/spin-magazine-being-sold-to-buzzmedia-with-plans-to-expand-online-reach/

huh

would be too bad if the revamped print edition died in the cradle like this

i'm sure Buzzmedia will do what's right

i haven't even gotten my first issue since i subscribed! they are totally going to saddle me with a lifetime sub to Complex aren't they.

ugh. that awful company.

Okay that Laurie's Planet of Sound 'Do Not Buy' thing is pretty hilarious. Although, man, refusing to buy "2nd Tier Hip Hop" and "60s/70s Artist's CDs from the 80s/90s/2000s" sound pretty dumb. I mean, a man has to get his No Limit and Trans somewhere, right?

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/120718-do-not-buy-list.png

it's 2012, of course a list of used CDs not to buy errs on the side of not buying

it's funny how much analysis and traction this thing has gotten on social media - people should kiss the ground if they find a place that will take any of their cds

so odd to see a band as obscure as luttenbachers on that list, assuming they mean flying luttenbachers?

people should kiss the ground if they find a place that will take any of their cds

Seriously. Some of the criticism of this list has seemed pretty dumb to me, like it's been written by someone who has never been to a used record/cd store and doesn't understand how they work.

xp yeah well the store's in chicago, my distant impression is that they are swimming in that stuff

what are people criticizing?

i'm assuming it just means that's stuff that they already have in stock and never sells anyway, right?

i wasn't aware of any analysis really, i just thought it was more of a "lol remember Geggy Tah" thing

yeah it's not a ton but you really can''t post a list of bands in a negative light on the net without a little hand-wringing

"love battery" should really be proud of the fact that they're still a stain on used bins

i'm assuming the original list was printed out years and years ago, w/ the handwritten additions more recent

what are people criticizing?

I've seen this list on tumblr, and there's been commentary saying the list was sexist because there were a lot of female artists.

haha oh jeez

"until edie brickell is treated with equality, none of us are treated with equality"

Melissa Etheridge and K.D. Lang being the only two names highlighted in blue is pretty eyebrow-raising, though

Love Battery owns

cause the store wouldn't buy it back

i think the suggestion is that "this is bad music" or at least that's what people would like to pretend in honor of furthering the meme

that's a pretty tortured zing there xpost

list is biased against obscure punk comps. fuck you, list

^otmfm

the grifters (i think?) seem like an odd inclusion. are there tons of used grifters CDs floating around? & yeah obscure punk comps -- that seems like the kind of thing that used CD stores would want? obscure things?

that's a pretty tortured zing there xpost

― that one guy (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

doesn't love laboured wordplay, apparently

<3

i used to live down the block from this place. them not buying 2nd tier hip hop explains a few of my bounced checks circa 2009

think 'obscure punk comps' means like sampler CDs from Asian Man or that kind of third tier dealie

okay finally looked at the pic and STING is killing me

no wai, ebullition & sound pollution xp

oh shit asian man record, that's a cold shot

really loved the loud issue, but this latest one is a terrible bore. we've got a painfully out of touch article on bath salts (featuring a journo who walks into a smoke shop to buy cigarettes), a vague piece on waaves & best coast (featuring a masturbatory allotment for each of them to posture their california loves), a page after page spanning article on how prominent bands like to chill on tour ... i'm an admitted bore myself, i admit, being such a whiney bitch. but this one is just so disposable i really, really hope the next issue redeems what excitement/anticipation the initial 2 issues since the reboot have invigorated in me.

masturbatory allotment? I thought they closed that place down!

we've got a painfully out of touch article on bath salts

well hey i learned something from it

I enjoyed it myself and didn't find it terribly out of touch; of anything it seemed timely and apt

it's pretty hilarious to be all indie rocker firsties about bath salts -- spin doesn't understand, maaan, they're just covering it because it's blowing up right now but where were they a year ago?

at least it's not about the relationship between HIV and AIDS

(featuring a journo who walks into a smoke shop to buy cigarettes)

s0 lame

at least it's not about the relationship between HIV and AIDS

― Mordy, Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:05 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

that is still the weirdest thing ever done by a mainstream publication

but yeah i don't even really know what "bath salts" are so maybe i should read it. i understand today's active teens are really into it.

they call the dope man "Mr. Bubble" and everybody's getting sudsy on the flippy flop

I guess I know it's some gross drug

god knowing how horrible ppl are it's probably made out of used rubbers and car batteries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh_nZiuFC4o
looks like a lot of fun

Jesus