VICE Vol. 8 · No. 8
The Anti-Music Issue — UK edition · John Michaels cover · guest-edited by Sam McPheeters
UK regional edition of VICE's 2010 Anti-Music Issue, physically numbered Volume 8 Number 8 and corresponding to the global Volume 17 Issue 8 package. Guest-edited by Sam McPheeters, the issue examines music culture by deliberately working against conventional music-magazine celebration: Napster and file sharing, bootlegging, touring, fear or rejection of music, the misuse of music, and a substantial Crass oral-history/interview feature.
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- VICE
- Condition
- Very Good−
- Completeness
- Apparently complete from the supplied front-cover, contents and rear-cover views; not page-by-page collated. No separate standard insert or premium has been established.
- Date
- August 2010 (global Anti-Music Issue; UK local month not printed)
Catalogue note
UK regional edition of VICE's 2010 Anti-Music Issue, physically numbered Volume 8 Number 8 and corresponding to the global Volume 17 Issue 8 package. Guest-edited by Sam McPheeters, the issue examines music culture by deliberately working against conventional music-magazine celebration: Napster and file sharing, bootlegging, touring, fear or rejection of music, the misuse of music, and a substantial Crass oral-history/interview feature. John Michaels' cover belongs to his 'Musicians' portrait project. The object preserves VICE's regional numbering system and its early-2010s free-magazine editorial culture.
Why this object matters
McPheeters’s guest-edited critique of music culture, with substantial Crass testimony and distribution debates, is a coherent editorial intervention. Award Gold at 9.0 for this original counter-history rather than music-celebrity accumulation.
Evidence limits: Apparently complete from the supplied front-cover, contents and rear-cover views; not page-by-page collated. No separate standard insert or premium has been established.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9 / 10 · Gold Star.
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