I thought it was an Arctic Monkey.
Some are saying they’re turning the surviving Boston Bomber into a rock’n’roll style icon. I kind of agree and think the mag were super stupid to have him on the cover.
In retaliation an officer has leaked photos if his capture.
If you haven’t heard about this story yet…you soon will.
would it be any different if he was on the cover of Time or Life? that’s what I’m curious about.
With a name like that one, he’ll never even reach McVeigh or Kaczynski levels of notoriety. Say it three times fast. Maybe his fans can’t abbreviate it to a cutesy ‘DT’. Rolling Stone Mag generating this much controversy is just amusing to me – they’re not a beacon of journalistic integrity. Chris “Rhianna beater” Brown made their cover. Yeah I know, he also never planned a terrorist attack either.
Reads like a sore loser but a little respect for him speaking up (IN ALL CAPS, nontheless):
Yeah, he looks like he’s in The Strokes or something. Maybe bombing public events will become the next big thing for hipsters to clutch onto.
Big deal…Manson and OJ have been on the cover of RS also…and that same pic of the bomber has been on the cover of other publications…this feels like one of those things where a person or a group get outraged and then a bunch of other people get outraged just because they think that is what they are supposed to do…there are obviously more pressing issues out there than this…
It’s a rock’n’roll mag for the most part as far as I’ve always been aware?
Friggin hipsters!
used to be a rock n roll mag but has been multi-faceted for decades now. wish it just stayed a rock n roll mag. that still seems to be the major focus, but it’s an all-media type of mag these days.
It’s important for people to realize that dangerous individuals can take the form of a nice, well coifed handsome young man too. Not all psychos look like James Holmes.
Some are saying they’re turning the surviving Boston Bomber into a rock’n’roll style icon. I kind of agree and think the mag were super stupid to have him on the cover.
Stupid like a fox. We’re all talking about Rolling Stone magazine. When’s the last time anyone did that? The outrage is playing right into their hands.
I’m glad the topic was brought up because I find myself oddly surprised at how against this I am. This is purely glorifying a fucking asshole and nothing else. This isn’t just your average fucking asshole either. This dude killed and took the fucking limbs off of innocent people… and he gets the cover of Rolling Stone? People will bring up the Time magazine Bin Laden cover. Yeah, yeah, yeah that was shitty too and I don’t agree with it but we aren’t talking about that so fuck off back into 2001.
It’s like, hey kids, wanna be famous and on Rolling Stone some day? Mame and murder people and then go on a shooting frenzy afterward! This is the secret doctors don’t want you to know!
I don’t think most people understand what these people have gone through, the victims, I mean. This isn’t as day and night, months ago, media flavor of the week, forgettable shit for them like it is for a lot of us. They are living with the literal wounds and the emotional ones every day. They’ve got PTSD and no legs. And the guy who took part in doing this to them gets the Rolling Stone cover. A feat artists used to strive for in order to solidify their career and status as icons. Imagine the stuff that is fucking with your head right now, the things causing stress in your life. Now imagine being in the position of the victims.
Fuck that guy. Fuck his hair and fucking face and the fucking pretty boy airbrushed cover. Putting him on the cover may be the “hip” controversial thing for Rolling Stone to do in an attempt to desperately grasp at relevance but it’s not going to work and they deserve the fall. Fuck them. This sort of shit benefits nobody of any worth except that piece of trash and the people glorifying him. A prime example of the media and society’s obsession with killers. We glorify these people.
**I’d only be okay with this if Casey Anthony was in Playboy. Oh, who am I kidding? I’d only be okay with this if Casey Anthony was in Penthouse. We can go further too.
used to be a rock n roll mag but has been multi-faceted for decades now. wish it just stayed a rock n roll mag. that still seems to be the major focus, but it’s an all-media type of mag these days.
Well i think rock is a dying breed. They’ll eventually usher out covering all rock music and just go straight pop icons. Because I mean, there are hardly any good rock bands these days worth covering.
[reply]used to be a rock n roll mag but has been multi-faceted for decades now. wish it just stayed a rock n roll mag. that still seems to be the major focus, but it’s an all-media type of mag these days.
Well i think rock is a dying breed. They’ll eventually usher out covering all rock music and just go straight pop icons. Because I mean, there are hardly any good rock bands these days worth covering.[/reply]
Horse shit there’s hardly any good rock bands these days worth covering. It’s just that idiots like the people at Rolling Stone are too busy spouting nonsense and putting killers on their cover. There are a TON of good newer bands out right now. Just because MTV and records saless are dead doesn’t mean great rock bands are too.
the real question is: why are people surprised with American media? should we expect anything else?
and I’m not saying it’s just like “oh, let’s accept it”. I’m just saying to no expect anything else until people hold the media’s feet to the fire. will that happen?
probably not.
Yeah, they’ve always fancied themselves as quasi-political. Having Hunter back in the day and PJ O’Rourke. Now they got Matt Taibbi and he’s pretty decent, but they’re a long way from their counterculture roots.
I don’t know. Bin Laden did make covers. As did Manson, like someone else pointed out. I think if he didn’t look like a Jonas brother, the conversation would be different. The fact that he looks like your average hipster does make it seem like they’re trying to draw a connection to youth society. And I agree that’s bad.
rolling stone sucks now. used to be wonderful. internet killed them.
[reply][reply]used to be a rock n roll mag but has been multi-faceted for decades now. wish it just stayed a rock n roll mag. that still seems to be the major focus, but it’s an all-media type of mag these days.
Well i think rock is a dying breed. They’ll eventually usher out covering all rock music and just go straight pop icons. Because I mean, there are hardly any good rock bands these days worth covering.[/reply]
Horse shit there’s hardly any good rock bands these days worth covering. It’s just that idiots like the people at Rolling Stone are too busy spouting nonsense and putting killers on their cover. There are a TON of good newer bands out right now. Just because MTV and records saless are dead doesn’t mean great rock bands are too.[/reply]
I guess you’re right to an extent. I don’t watch fucking MTV and I’m totally oblivious to what’s “hot” at the moment, but yea, I can only name a handful of new rock bands. They might be out there, I just haven’t heard many lately, and i do my fair share of music browsing.
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Some are saying they’re turning the surviving Boston Bomber into a rock’n’roll style icon. I kind of agree and think the mag were super stupid to have him on the cover.
Stupid like a fox. [/reply]
Actually I think you find it’s “crazy like a fox”. Does anyone remember that whack 80s show?
[reply]used to be a rock n roll mag but has been multi-faceted for decades now. wish it just stayed a rock n roll mag. that still seems to be the major focus, but it’s an all-media type of mag these days.
Well i think rock is a dying breed. They’ll eventually usher out covering all rock music and just go straight pop icons. Because I mean, there are hardly any good rock bands these days worth covering.[/reply]
There are…they just don’t sell many records which in turn would sell many magazines.
[reply]Stupid like a fox.
Actually I think you find it’s “crazy like a fox”. Does anyone remember that whack 80s show?
[reply][reply][reply]used to be a rock n roll mag but has been multi-faceted for decades now. wish it just stayed a rock n roll mag. that still seems to be the major focus, but it’s an all-media type of mag these days.
Well i think rock is a dying breed. They’ll eventually usher out covering all rock music and just go straight pop icons. Because I mean, there are hardly any good rock bands these days worth covering.[/reply]
Horse shit there’s hardly any good rock bands these days worth covering. It’s just that idiots like the people at Rolling Stone are too busy spouting nonsense and putting killers on their cover. There are a TON of good newer bands out right now. Just because MTV and records saless are dead doesn’t mean great rock bands are too.[/reply]
I guess you’re right to an extent. I don’t watch fucking MTV and I’m totally oblivious to what’s “hot” at the moment, but yea, I can only name a handful of new rock bands. They might be out there, I just haven’t heard many lately, and i do my fair share of music browsing.[/reply]
You won’t find them on MTV, that’s for sure. But I suppose it depends on what you’re into.
Some new and newish bands I really fucking love:
• A Place to Bury Strangers
• Autolux
• Suuns
• All the Saints
• Dead Confederate
• The Big Pink
• Deerhunter
• Middle Class Rut
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.