 | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Wordsworth Reference) by Charles Mackay
Buy new: £3.76 / Used from: £0.35 Has an amazing way of putting the stupidity of the modern age into context, as it's always been like this.
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 | The Pirate's Dilemma: How Hackers, Punk Capitalists, Graffiti Millionaires and Other Youth Movements are Remixing Our Culture and Changing Our World by Matt Mason
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £7.00 you can 'get' most of it out of the first couple of chapters but good and interesting nonetheless
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 | The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy by Andrew Keen
Buy used from: £9.75 this book needed to be written. it's an interesting irony that it's not amazingly well written
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 | Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Buy used from: £3.29 A and Argh
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 | The Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand by Chris Anderson
Buy used from: £2.80 it's a fascinating analysis but years on makes for quite depressing reading
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 | Great Jones Street (Picador Books) by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £1.68 possibly the greatest book about rock'n'roll ever written.
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 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £2.59 a simple way of understanding modern marketing
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 | No Logo: No Space. No Choice. No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.04 reads 'funny' today but is still relevant
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 | Howling at the Moon by Walter Yetnikoff
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 puts most books about the music industry to shame, the fella was a legend, a sexist drug-addled man but a legend.
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 | "Muse": Inside the Muscle Museum by Ben Myers
Buy new: £7.02 / Used from: £5.21 a must-read for anyone who's a fan or interested how they became one of the biggest bands in the world
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 | Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Sir Richard Branson
Buy used from: £3.15 this is how companies used to be built
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 | Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk, 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.94 |
 | Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing by Benjamin Nugent
Buy new: £6.75 / Used from: £6.79 is far from the greatest book ever written but some interesting insights
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 | Where Have all the Good Times Gone?: The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry by Louis Barfe
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.06 suffers from far too much information syndrome but parts of it about the philanthropy and fear which the early record industry encourtered is recommended reading
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 | The Book of Fuck by Ben Myers
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £4.46 fiction of a journalist in search of marilyn manson
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 | Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.98 bukowski in the film industry, he sounds like every musician i've ever encourtered when their creatvity reaches a new level
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 | The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music 1972-1993 by Nick Kent
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £4.07 old skool british music journalism at its pinnacle
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 | Faking it: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music by Hugh Barker
Buy new: £9.69 / Used from: £5.86 really inspiring read, in a similar vein to mystery train
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 | 45 by Bill Drummond
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.10 the only punk book worth reading, probably
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 | The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
Buy new: £9.94 / Used from: £7.00 a fascinating read about innovation
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 | Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Five Star) by Lester Bangs
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.85 this list wouldn't be complete without the finest rock writer, ever (maybe)
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