At 10:31 PM 2/23/2004 EST, CCDatsMe@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 2/23/04 9:42:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>crotherskp@juno.com writes:
>
>
>> Think I can get anything for the crap magazine they replaced it with to
>> fulfill subscriptions after they folded?
>> 
>
>Ah, the "wonderful" RECORD magazine!  Calling it "crap" is unfair to crap.

Believe it or not, the very first incarnation of Record -- a quarter-fold
magazine on newsprint -- was actually pretty good.  It was started by
Rolling Stone's parent company, Straight Arrow, as tacit acknowledgment
that Rolling Stone wasn't really a music magazine anymore, and more to the
point had no idea how to cover new artists.  So for the first few months,
Record was a really smart, well-written, informative magazine that turned
me on to a lot of good stuff.  Unfortunately, I think it didn't even last a
year in that format and the new retooled glossy version was just awful.

S