Ten Reasons I Subscribe To SPIN Magazine

Its not as awful as everyone wants to make it out to be. I like it because sometimes it gathers up the stuff that falls in the gap between "too indie for Rolling Stone" but "too mainstream for Pitchfork". Some of the features are worth reading too.

yeah pretty much every recent issue i've gotten has at least one or two really worthwhile features. good lengthy profiles with bigger acts are still one thing the mags do best that the internet hasn't totally supplanted.

^agree w/ both. but on the back-issue thing, it infuriates me that the magazine has condensed into so little... pages would go on into the 200's in the late 90's, issues today are nary close to 76. I mean, obv. I realize the impact internet has made upon magazine. But it hasn't stopped Wired. Hasn't stopped the Economist. I would hope that Spin follows their leads by being the source for big, long features that one wouldn't have the tolerance for scrolling again and again online.

But, it's like, I read the magazine and there's the celebrity playlist, and then theres a 4 pages consisting of only a blown-up picture, and then a "whats in your room" profile. i mean, come on. bands come and go so fast in this ~modern era~ that the notion of celebrity - do i care what, for ex, james blake has next to his bed?? - is one i care little for in the musical realm.

the "what's in your room" thing is cool imo, thurston moore and ozzy osbourne have a lot of interesting random stuff around their houses!

ha i guess those would be p interesting. but the last issue i got featured rilo kiley & her boyfriend's room... who were so utterly hop and boring i wanted to cry.

yeah it definitely is someone boring like that about half the time

i got my first issue yesterday! exciting. not sure if azaelia banks was born when my last sub to spin ran out.

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