There’s something ironic about the new music title from Haymarket. It’s called Rip & Burn, primarily to appeal to the generation of music listeners who, um, you know.

The website itself is pretty awful. The forums appear not to work correctly: 14 posts in the General forum, of which you can only see one, if you’re lucky. And it’s not a forum, it’s a place for posting messages. A Newsblog that doesn’t know whether it’s a Blog or a Forum. And links that are the same colour as headlines.

But the funny part is that you can subscribe to it on-line. And get it posted to you. Yes. No download. No read on-line. Not even a measly PDF. Wouldn’t it be cool to have the magazine downloadable as iPod Notes?

Now let’s get onto the Reviews. Each review has a rating which is actually the number of tracks on an album that are worth burning. Not of course ripping. Since that would be naughty. If I don’t have the album, I can’t burn anyway. If I have the album, why should I burn tracks from it? In any case, there are no links to online music stores for the recommended tracks. What useless bunch invented this magazine?