Rolling Stones Magazine Cover to Cover

This is the coffee table book of the digital age. I really thought this was a cool book when it first came out, but it just doesn't have the same cool to it in digital format. The contents are exactly the same as the printed version, so it still makes for an amazing collection of photographs of the biggest icons in recent history.

But in another way, this is VERY COOL for the fact that this is the entire issue in digital format from issue 1 - 1,025/1,026. Those days when vans had 8 track tapes, those days when the music industry said cassettes would ruin their business (boy, what they’d give to go back there), the rise of punk, the fall of punk, the return of punk, the days when hip hop was still new and strange, the crappy albums that got too many stars and the influential ones that got too few. You can spread out forty years of culture right in front of you, and go from laughing at how random the t-shirts are to being amazed at what some of our current politicians were trying to get away with even back then.

"The Rolling Stone Cover to Cover – The First 40 Years Digital Archive is like an old hippie with glaucoma. At first he might not seem like someone you’d hang out with, but once you visit, you’ll quickly find a good reason to stick around. This is practically the Edith Hamilton’s Mythology of pop culture. If you can read, you can enjoy it."

I still might consider purchasing this...