• Spin, Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:51 PM

"The value of the average rock critic's opinion has plummeted now that a working knowledge of Google can get you high-quality audio of practically any record, so you can listen and decide for yourself whether it's worth a damn… Um, but don't tell anyone we said that, okay?"

So writes Spin staffers in a post explaining how they're going to "reinvent" music reviews with the @SpinReviews Twitter feed, which aims "to be an exhaustively definitive listener's guide and argument-starter for virtually every album or EP or mixtape that matters in 2012. Within the confines of a 140-character tweet, we're hoping to take on more than 1,500 new records this calendar year alone, all reviewed by our eight in-house editors and a team of a dozen valued freelancers."

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