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List Price: $117.00
Our Price: $14.95
Your Save: $ 102.05 ( 87% )
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 4-6
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 26
Label: Wenner Media
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: Wenner Media
Number Of Issues: 26
Publisher: Wenner Media
Studio: Wenner Media
Subscription Length: 365
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Customer Rating:
Summary: I never received the magazine
Comment: I subscribed over a month ago and have not received the magazine. Service typical of everything I order from Amazon. This time I will keep my promise to myself and NEVER do business with Amazon again. I waited two months for an in-stock book on my last order. I have learned my lesson.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A mixed bag
Comment: For a long time Rolling Stone has been one of the most popular magazines when it comes to music, politics, and popular culture in general. There's a lot of good things about it. For example, they often have some really great writers (I mean, this is the magazine that brought us Hunter S. Thompson). And then on the other hand, well, I don't know the most eloquent way to put this, but there's a lot of things about this magazine that kinda suck.
One of the things that's really weird about Rolling Stone is that you can't really tell who it's written for. It seems like they're trying to write the magazine for everybody, but it just ends up seeming like it was written for nobody. They do cover stories on a lot of tween garbage like High School Musical and Fall Out Boy and then there will be stuff about these old dinosaur bands. It seems like it's very rare that there's a cover story about something that's both new and good.
And speaking of older bands, the magazine pretty much worships them. That's fine in some ways, but they really overpraise the work of older musicians who are no longer doing anything musically interesting while ignoring a lot of great new stuff. The most popular example is when they gave three stars to Nirvana's Nevermind when it came out. And then they hilariously made a couple of additional reviews later on where they backpedal and gave it a higher score. They do that with their end of the year music lists too. "Oh woops, we gave that Of Montreal album three stars, but it's pretty popular so let's put it in our Top 50 of the year list." And those aren't the only two examples of that. From what I've seen, if Rolling Stone gives an album a three star rating, you should just assume that it's going to be awesome. And if they give an album a five star rating, you should just assume that it's by Bob Dylan.
Also, some of the praise given to really weak bands or bands that are really established makes me question the magazine. You have to wonder where the criticism stops and where the magazine just becomes a promotional tool.
Some of the political writing in here is pretty good. It skews heavily to the left and that might bother some people, but the writing is often very well done.
I've noticed that there's frequently these really kind of tabloid-y stories in here. That sounds bad, but the writers have a knack for keeping up with stories that read like they should be in the most awesome tabloid paper ever. For example, there was a story in here about an underage gay porn actor that was linked to the murder of his producer. There's often one story like this per issue and I really love that stuff.
Reviews for film and TV are usually a little more in touch with the present than their music reviews. They usually give praise to stuff that is actually good.
So yeah, there's a lot of problems with the magazine, but at the end of the day, you have a pretty decent amount of good reading material here for a very cheap price. On a scale of one to ten, I rate it "something to read on the toilet."
Customer Rating:
Summary: Forget It
Comment: Not the Rolling Stone mag it used to be by ANY means. No Thanks, I won't be renewing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: They will threaten your credit rating if you decide to cancel
Comment: The poor content of this magazine is the least of your worries. Think: credit rating. Once you put your mark on that little subscription card, they will hound you, threaten you to keep those checks coming. If you even think about canceling your subscription, a deluge of threatening letters will come your way. Don't even think about it ... stand back at least 500 feet.
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Summary: Not what it used to be
Comment: I remember when I was 12 years old. Impatiently waiting for my RS to arrive, which I read cover to cover. Every article was golden and the reviews were usually spot on.
Now flash forward 20 years later and it's a different story. I am just as much into music now as I was then (and maybe even more now). The cover stories have seemed to have strayed from talented musician to the popular vote of today's Tiger Beat star or reality show star. The reviews of the music are pitiful and could not be more off. I just do not enjoy it any more. I stopped my subscription over a year ago.
I was browsing Amazon when I saw how poorly rated this magazine was and thought "wow, I'm not alone".
Maybe it's just the poor state of music today. There are no real talented acts being interviewed for this magazine.
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This magazine is edited for young adults who have a special interest in popular culture. Its regular features include state-of-the-art audio and electronics columns, record reviews, reader correspondence, interviews and photojournalism features.
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