filthy lucre

After about 4 and a half years buying and reading various music magazines AND keeping them all, something inside me finally snapped. Maybe it's the sight of staples and staples of magazines blocking the way to my bed. Maybe it's the knowledge that, in this consumer-era, where everything is recycled only to be sold again, there's no use in keeping the magazines, hell, almost all of the articles you can probably find in the net, or in the next "special issues". So why bother?? Keeping this in mind, I started a few days ago, sorting out the stuff I don't ever want to see again. But not before I scour the content for pictures I can use for my collage. But I digress. What really annoyed me, looking back at all the magazines I've ever bought, is that, every 3 or 4 mags that I bought, there's always a best of list. It's funny how humans always look for approval. I used to get goosebumps when I see one of my favorite album perching on the top of a list. The feeling of being better than the losers out there who've never heard of the Velvet Underground. But in the end, what's the point of it all? In the end it's all product placement. Who are they to tell us what to hear? Who are they to tell us what to buy? It's always Sgt Pepper, Velvet Underground & Nico, Pet Sounds, Revolver, Rubber Soul, What's Going On, Marquee Moon, Nevermind, AT LEAST one album from shitty U2 and the criminally overrated Bruce Springsteen, London Calling, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde, well, you get the idea. It's not that they're bad music. Of course they're not. But this repetition, this mantra like monotony, that tries to hammer this notion that a particular music is the better than other music. Isn't it just sickening? It's one thing to recommend an album, but this is almost blind worship. Honestly, all this is making all those beautiful music seem overrated. Write more about new music, fer Christ's sake. What really ires me too, is that those magazines tend to wait until there's something to write about, instead of discovering new music. It IS all about the money after all.