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In 1985, SPIN launched with a self-deprecating but sincere introduction from founder Bob Guccione Jr. “The world needs a lot of things before it needs more magazines,” he wrote. “However, I thought a lot of people might want SPIN, including myself.” And he was right. Over the past four-plus decades, SPIN has proven that even in the face of paradigm shifts in the media and music industries — the decline of print, the record business bust, our in-house changes — there is no shortage of people longing to read features, interviews and more from writers “with real excitement about music.”