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VIBE Magazine, RIP




"Vibe Magazine--one of the biggest music magazines in America--is folding. The entire music magazine landscape is full of the dead and dying." [Gawker]
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Posted on June 30, 2009 2:04 PM
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can't remember the last time i purchased a music magazine. but without music magazines, what will i read at the doctors office/hairdresser?
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 2:10 PM
just saved 50k trees in the Canadian hinterland.
mmm...hinterland.
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 2:14 PM
What am I going to do with my 40 subscriptions to VIBE now?
Posted by Funderburgh | June 30, 2009 2:18 PM
what's a "magazine"?
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 2:23 PM
I wonder if the internets are to blame.
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 2:24 PM
Mehgazine
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 2:30 PM
"can't remember the last time i purchased a music magazine. but without music magazines, what will i read at the doctors office/hairdresser?"
Your doctor gets music magazines??!!? Mine has golf, tennis, skiing and the economist.
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 2:34 PM
Good job, Funderburgh.
Glad someone beat me to the Office Space joke!
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 2:34 PM
I can't wait to celebrate the death of Rolling Stone someday. Too bad too, cause that was a great magazine for a long time but has been a total sham for years now.
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 2:59 PM
vibe is/was a music magazine?
look at that cover... it doesn't exactly scream "new music reviews".
(and, yes, i know rolling stone and other, uh, rock mags are guilty of that as well, so keep those "you're a racist" comments saved for another time... i'm just making a point.)
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 4:08 PM
magazines are a dying breed. fuck them. just a waste of money.
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 4:19 PM
never knew it existed.
Posted by Sacred Absolute Hipster Cow | June 30, 2009 4:32 PM
@ 2:59
what he just said
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 4:43 PM
everyone wants free content.
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 4:45 PM
Except for Matt Taiibi, Rolling Stone is a waste.
And yes, everyone wants free content, more than they want quality content.
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 5:10 PM
Rolling Stone gave U2's lastest bomb album 5 stars. How embarrassing? Wonder how much Bono paid for that? And all the soft-porn covers, both gay and straight? Desperation time!
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 5:13 PM
Bono probably gave Jann Wenner a hummer for the 5-star review of his latest plate of crap. And I don't mean a vehicle.
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 5:21 PM
I won a lifetime subscription to Rolling Stone and a friend of mine pointed out that I lost cause I now have a lifetime subscription to Rolling Stone. The magazine isn't terrible - they have decent writing about politics and the music BUSINESS - but the music writing they write about has been a joke for decades. I do have to give them credit for having an expiration date on my lifetime subscription label though, so at least I now know exactly when I'm going to die.
Posted by texastab | June 30, 2009 5:28 PM
I won a lifetime subscription to Rolling Stone and a friend of mine pointed out that I lost cause I now have a lifetime subscription to Rolling Stone. The magazine isn't terrible - they have decent writing about politics and the music BUSINESS - but the music writing they write about has been a joke for decades. I do have to give them credit for having an expiration date on my lifetime subscription label though, so at least I now know exactly when I'm going to die.
Posted by texastab | June 30, 2009 5:28 PM
SPIN is pretty terrible, also
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 6:18 PM
Spin layoffs as well . .
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nymag/intel/~3/xb5Bk3olpyY/layoffs_at_spin.html
Posted by jan janson | June 30, 2009 6:29 PM
you should let us vote on people's comments. it makes me feel good.
Posted by brian | June 30, 2009 7:25 PM
This is your opportunity BV. Start a weekly BV magazine that's delivered via mail straight to your home for $20 a month. Huge money especially with all the zines folding...
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 7:32 PM
@4:43 pm
What they just said.
Plus, New Yorker is the only magazine I read and strictly, strictly, STRICTLY for the fiction.
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 9:25 PM
The Wire (not Wired) is the best music magazine published and very little of their content is available online so I pony up the absurd $10.00 cover price for it every month - and I never feel ripped off.
Posted by Anonymous | June 30, 2009 10:15 PM
there's a 4 letter for that dreadful publication: stay tuned for answer.
Posted by donn | June 30, 2009 11:48 PM
"The Wire (not Wired) is the best music magazine published and very little of their content is available online so I pony up the absurd $10.00 cover price for it every month - and I never feel ripped off.'
If I'm going to pay $10 for a magazine it better have nudity in it.
Posted by Anonymous | July 1, 2009 3:14 AM
poor magazines. poor, poor magazines.
Posted by Sean | July 1, 2009 2:08 PM
I miss porn mags, high speed has me exsausted and desensitized.
Posted by mik flood | July 2, 2009 2:45 AM
i kept renewing my subscription. i want that money back and i'm thinking about doing something about it.
Posted by Brad | July 12, 2009 9:13 AM