Product Description

What started out as a few twenty-something drug addicts writing a newsletter and scamming welfare-to-work programs in the mid-nineties has become a global empire of hedonism that includes a magazine, a chain of retail stores, a clothing line, Vice Films, Vice TV, Vice Records, and viceland.com. A compilation of the magazines best articles over the past decade, the book includes hilarious, edgy, and informative guides to sex, music and the party scene. With outtakes and photos from their most famous issues, The Vice Guide....is an irreverent look at an outrageous cultural phenomenon. The Vice Guide....will appeal to the same audience who made bestsellers of The Onion, The Darwin Awards, and The Hipster Handbook. With a circulation of 200,000 this free monthly had taken its place alongside Rolling Stone and Spin, establishing itself as the voice of a generation. It was named the #1 trendsetting magazine for females 19-24 and #2 for males 25-30 by the Cassandra Report marketing survey. The Vice web site, viceland.com, has 80,000 unique users per month. Vice has signed with New Line Cinema to write and produce their own feature films. They have also signed with Atlantic Records to develop their own label and with Showtime to develop a comedy series.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35585 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 326 pages

Customer Reviews

The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

great leisure read
"the vice guide to sex and drugs and rock and roll" is more of an introduction to, well, the vices in life. Most of the information is half assed, and its dripping with sarcasm on most of the important aspects of the book. however, its an enlightening read and the "government high" and "fashion do's and dont's" are perhaps the reason this book is always open near my toilet

Ack! False infomation everywhere!
Now, don't get me wrong, I love all of the clever wit and aggressive writing styles. Who cares if VICE doesn't bother editing for even near-proper grammar?

The sex and rock & roll articles are quite readable, though most of the drug information provided is pure urban legend trash.

Note: condoning the use of anti-depressants in high quantity for recreational effect has got to be the most reckless advice I've ever read. For the sake of everyone's personal safety, DO NOT TAKE VICE'S DRUG ARTICLES SERIOUSLY!