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I checked two different Borders, two different Jewel stores, Walgreens, and CVS in the days since VC people have said they have found theirs and had no luck. Either they no longer carry Spin (most cases) or had the issue with Prince out (Jewel).

 

I've also had no luck finding this in the Northwest burbs. I half wonder if nearly every Chicago area Spin has been diverted to the Loft. :shifty

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Just picked up a copy from Barnes & Noble. Article was pretty high in cliched content, fell just short of saying that Wilco rose from the ashes of Uncle Tupelo. Great photos, though.

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Just picked up a copy from Barnes & Noble. Article was pretty high in cliched content, fell just short of saying that Wilco rose from the ashes of Uncle Tupelo. Great photos, though.

The "rose from the ashes" line has to include "seminal alt-country group" when describing UT or it doesn't count.

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whew, found mine at the new mega Walmart.

 

and... the girl at the checkout made a face at Jeff's picture.

 

My wife bought me a copy at the local mega grocery. She said that the check out boy's reaction was "Wilco? Isn't he dead yet?" Ahhh......Ok. Let's count up what's wrong with that sentence.....

 

EDIT: Whooo! that was my 500th post!

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The "rose from the ashes" line has to include "seminal alt-country group" when describing UT or it doesn't count.

 

"Jeff Tweedy rose from modest, humble beginnings. His father worked on a railroad, his family literally ate coal for years at a time. As a boy, he formed a connection with Jay Farrar, a bond of musical kindred spirts seeped in moonshine whiskey and carved in oak and sycamore. Since Belleville, Illinois lacked electricity, running water, and received its news through smoke signals, all the boys could do after school was play guitar and dream of forming a band that critics would write idiotic prose about.

 

Their musical bond with Mike Heidorn forged the beginnings of Uncle Tupelo in a shower of iron ore sparks, punk rock sweat and steam. After Heidorn's departure and Jay and Jeff's fractious parting of ways, shattering the American dream and causing a fissure in the fabric of spacetime, the seminal alt-country group Uncle Tupelo was pulverized and grinded down to a pile of ashes and tiny metal shavings. The reanimated Tweedy, Stirratt, Coomer and Johnston rose up from the ashes thanks in part to the level-24 spell-casting abilities of Tony Margherita. Though he has completely regained his humanity, Tweedy occasionally still coughs up an ashball."

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"Jeff Tweedy rose from modest, humble beginnings. His father worked on a railroad, his family literally ate coal for years at a time. As a boy, he formed a connection with Jay Farrar, a bond of musical kindred spirts seeped in moonshine whiskey and carved in oak and sycamore. Since Belleville, Illinois lacked electricity, running water, and received its news through smoke signals, all the boys could do after school was play guitar and dream of forming a band that critics would write idiotic prose about.

 

Their musical bond with Mike Heidorn forged the beginnings of Uncle Tupelo in a shower of iron ore sparks, punk rock sweat and steam. After Heidorn's departure and Jay and Jeff's fractious parting of ways, shattering the American dream and causing a fissure in the fabric of spacetime, the seminal alt-country group Uncle Tupelo was pulverized and grinded down to a pile of ashes and tiny metal shavings. The reanimated Tweedy, Stirratt, Coomer and Johnston rose up from the ashes thanks in part to the level-24 spell-casting abilities of Tony Margherita. Though he has completely regained his humanity, Tweedy occasionally still coughs up an ashball."

 

One of the funniest effin' things I've read lately. :rotfl

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i love how modest the boys room looks. Besides the Who poster did anyone recognize who else the boys have represented on their wall?

I couldn't find any other bands, but two things caught my eye:

1) How few CD's he has. I'm assuming that he has a bizillion mp3's, but still...

2) the rug - did that persian rug get retired from stage duty and end up on his floor?

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whew, found mine at the new mega Walmart.

 

and... the girl at the checkout made a face at Jeff's picture.

 

and... I got home & my 3yr old said "look, it's the Joker"

 

(mine too, was at the back hidden behind other magazines)

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Spin has a free subscription to their Digital Edition here:

 

http://digital.spin.com/spin/200907/?u1=texterity

 

Click on the link, then click on Free Subscription in the upper left hand corner to subscribe. It doesn't look like it has the August issue online yet, but you can see the past couple of years - pretty cool.

 

As The Dude pointed out, you can get it as a digital issue.

 

I read another article the other day about the demise of music magazines. I wonder if they have cut back on distributing. Which is odd, as I see Spin everywhere, particularity in supermarkets.

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