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Spin's tumble into irrelevancy

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sjbrot:
For those who haven't heard, Spin has been sold to a new company and their staff has been switched up, including the editor-in-chief and the publisher, and replaced with previous members of Blender's, the magazine owned and operated by the same people as Maxim, editorial staff. After the shake up went public, Spin scribe and author Chuck Klosterman announced that he would be leaving the magazine.

I realise that a good number of you probably don't have much respect for Spin, but I still think that they are important, at least as one of the major music magazines that covers some alternative-to-mainstream. Plus, they still employ Andy Greenwald to the best of my knowledge.

Thoughts? Opinions? Does anyone out there think this is a bit of a tragedy, or do most just think that their poor track record of late sounded their death long before they were purchased?

pat101:
Spin isn't an AWFUL magazine, I mean they have some entertaining stuff... sometimes.

LIVE!Forever:
it can't get much worse then it is already...

probably the captions will be funnier, but they'll still be sucking off the band of the moment every month

Kai:
Hey, no matter what happens to them, at least they can say that they aren't Blender.

Combinethresher:
People here mention Spin's tumble into irrelevance as though it had just happened. Please. Spin has been a ad-crammed gossip rag since I was a kid. It's most noticeable in their yearly "blow more smoke up Kurt Cobain's rotting behind" issue. And their 25 years of punk thing was goddamned laughable. They'd be Alternative Press if they didn't have competent layout people.

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