Magazines Rolling Stone (1-year)
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Rating: - Pretentious
More and more, all the industry wants to do is tell you what it is you are supposed to like, and ridicule anything we might consider to be a guilty pleasure, and if you indulge in such a thing, you are 'shallow'.

Music has evolved past this attitude, and no one believes in this naked emperor anymore. And oh yeah, their politics is so mixed up, they don't even know what they believe anymore. I was a subscriber for eleven years, my renewal notice came, and I couldn't come up with one good reason to send it in.

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Rating: - Like the magazine, hate customer service
I have been a subscriber for 15 years and still enjoy the magazine. No, its not the best magazine for music, but it is one of the best for for general pop culture news and I still occassionally find new artists because of the magazine, though I tend to find more new movies now.

However, if you ever have a problem with customer service, forget it. I never got my copy of the 1,000 issue, and when I asked for a replacement, I was told they were out of that issue, but would extend my subscription by one issue. I pointed out that it was a double issue AND that they are still selling back issues on their web site for $20. If they don't resolve it quick, I might just cancel my subscription, I'm so disgusted.

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Rating: - Rolling Stone------RIP.
Oh Lord!! Does anyone still read this?? I was a subscriber back in the early 70's,when it was a folded up, newspaper.By and large, Jann Wenner let people run it, that knew how to. It is now, and has been nothing more than an Ad choked,gossiping Teen slick.Right, like they are the ones with the money!! I wonder what they still pay Raoul Duke, to do??!! Ralph Gleason has to be turning over in the grave.

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Rating: - Used to be decent, now it's pretty much junk
This used to be a pretty decent music magazine. Not the best that was out there, but still decent. However, Rolling Stone has taken a huge nose-dive in the past ten or so years. I'm not sure I'd even really call it a music magazine anymore. It's more a pop-culture magazine that panders to teeny-boppers. A music magazine's main focus should be music, but RS has over the years started including more and more articles on TV shows, movies, politics, etc and less and less on music...especially less and less on good music. If you want a magazine on pop-culture go with Entertainment Weekly. It, at least, has a bit of taste here and there and doesn't spout off about politics. If I want politics, I'll read the newspaper or watch CNN. I don't buy music magazines for politics. I buy them for music. If you want a good music magazine, this isn't the place to look anymore.