
An open letter to Rolling Stone…
Dear Rolling Stone,
I’ve been a subscriber for years. At times I’ve enjoyed your magazine immensely. At other times it has pissed me off. Occasionally, the issues I receive go completely unread, through no fault of your own, mind you — I just get too busy to read all the magazines I subscribe to sometimes.
In recent years — when many have slammed you for morphing into something other than a music magazine while also exhibiting an ignorance of the internet bordering on disdain — I stuck by you, largely because I love having issues of Rolling Stone on my coffee table when people come over. But I suppose you could say that my tolerance has been running thin of late, and today you pushed me over the edge when I went out to my mailbox and discovered your new Bieber cover.
Seriously, Rolling Stone — I’m a grown-ass man. How the hell am I supposed to display this sh*t on my coffee table and still maintain my dignity?! If I wanted magazines with covers like this in my house I’d subscribe to Tiger Beat. Does the name above my address read “Pedobear”? It’s one thing to continually put this twatwaffle on the cover but to splash “HOT READY LEGAL” over it is simply more than I can take.
I’m canceling my subscription effective today. I’ll read the work of Matt Taibbi and Tim Dickinson online like everyone else.
Yours in disgust,
Cajun Boy
That felt good.



You would leave Rolling Stone on your coffee table for people to see? On Purpose?
It’s 2012, no one is going to believe that.
What’s that? Couldn’t hear you over all this hammering! We’re building a coffin!
I like the photoshopped biceps… errrrr, that came out awkward…
/loosens collar.
I don’t care if he’s “legal.” He looks 12 and it’s creepy.
I let my RS subscription run out about two years ago, and I definitely don’t regret it.
If I say I hate that cover, does it make me a homophobe?
+1000 for twatwaffle
i have to disagree here. i have a lifetime subscription to rolling stone. they offered it a few years back for 100 bones. they must have really been struggling. at any rate, i read the full article and it not so subversively slams the biebs. he’s quoted as saying “swag” at least 4 times, and even says “swaggy.” but, rs has really been on it’s game the last couple of years. there have been so many good reads lately as they have been covering classic artists like bowie, the beatles, etc. they’ve had some really candid interviews with modern artists as well. sometimes you have to take the covers with a grain of salt. they are desperate to sell their mag, just as any other publication in circulation these days.
I would imagine that Tiger Beat has higher journalistic standards.
I didn’t know it was possible, but with that haircut, Bieber looks even more like a 17 year old lesbian.
“I didn’t know it was possible, but with…”
…a few tattoos, Beiber would look exactly like at least seven lesbians I know who get pissed off if you tell them that.
Hoo boy…
So it didn’t bother you in 2004 when RS had the same cover headline for Lindsay Lohan?