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I do. Isn't it great getting magazines in the post? As soon as they come out in the shops!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't subscribe to the idea of magazines.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

plus, you avoid the shame of having to ask the shopkeep for the new issue of Hot Tail.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, i do! i don't have any subscriptions at the moment but i buy magazines all the time!

(ahem xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to get rolling stone - wait! Don't hang up! - I got it because my step brother was writing for them (he wrote some brilliant articles about the Iraq war.) But he hasn't had much in there lately.. and I always got the mag about a week after it came out. and it's an otherwise shitty piece of crap.

I'm letting all my subscriptions lapse. Who has time to read? Reading is for suckers.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I read on my commute! Today I read about Martha Stewart in The New Yorker and the Metallica movie in Film Comment.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

My roommate subscribes to Shape. The most exercising that's ever done in this apartment is when we hop around to workout videos while drinking beer and smoking, but the sight of the stack Shape magazines on the bookshelf kind of makes me feel like I'm doing something good for myself, in a way.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm afraid of commitment.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

With this and Netflix, I get all my culture delivered right to my mailbox everyday! Except I'm afraid to go outside without my bodysuit and antiseptic gloves...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I might go to the comic store after work. The good one, which is waaay on the other side of town, but the one downtown really blows.
If I had a subscription, I could just go home and maybe have a nap.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Wish I could afford New Yorker and Economist subscriptions.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I subscribe to Archaeology and enjoy it immensly. But my buddy subscribes to Playboy and I think he enjoys it more.

― andy, Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

H-Buck, subscribing to a comic book would be the coolest thing EVER. Especially Thor.

― andy, Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Wish I could afford New Yorker and Economist subscriptions.

Haha, when did I become a Yuppie?

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Thor? Puh-leaze!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i get about twenty magazines a month. for free!

― kephm, Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've got ARTFORUM, FILM COMMENT, JUXTAPOZ, DETAILS and ESQUIRE. Light reading.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I just suscribe to Time Out NY and Bust, but I should suscribe to Bitch, Ready Made, and Budget Living, since I read them so often.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I got the new yorker for years but eventually they just started piling up unread. so now we get vanity fair and tv guide. although we get neither at the moment because we never pay the bill.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Four or five religious studies or related academic journals, Sports Illustrated, Food and Wine, Playboy, Cooks Illustrated, Blender, ESPN, and Spider-Man.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I subsribe to the New Yorker, Time Out NY, and Entertainment Weekly. I just signed up for a special deal with Salon where I will get free subscribtions to Granta, the New York Review of Books, and Wired. (An unhoped for gift subsribtion of the Oxford American comes to my mailbox.) I think I want to subscribe to more magazines.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, and I got a free subscription to some videogame magazine (EGM?) for buying some used games.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I should suscribe to Bitch, Ready Made, and Budget Living, since I read them so often.

I applied for a job at Bitch! ;)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I think my subscription to the new yorker ran out. :( I will be renewing. I also get vogue, new york, newsweek, and jane but I'm letting jane run out. I really want the economist but it is soooo much. also I get a million zillion papers and magazines at work.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 26 March 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I love getting mail.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 26 March 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never subscribed to a single magazine other than Mad.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 26 March 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It shows!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(that's a good thing)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

why you fershluggin—

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

shame: years back i had a subscription for wwf raw magazine
more shame: i got the subscription because i wrote for it

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I subscribed to Esquire because I wanted to read Tom Carson every month cheap, and then three months after I start the sub he fucking jumps to GQ! So now I have to buy GQ on the stands, which is more expensive than Esquire! Damn you, Tom Carson!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf dean???

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Carson is amazing. I wish he still wrote his TV column for the Voice.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF DEAN WOT

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I subscribe as a matter of necessity. It's not easy to find obscure poetry journals in the shops.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I expect it's not.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Dean sucks. Smackdown magazine is obviously the superior product.

This is a joke. Dean rules--wrestling journalism seems like fun. In the land of wrestling fans the man who grasps the correct use of the semicolon (for example) is king.

― adam (adam), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

This was waaaay before the WWE bullshit. Wrestling "journalism" seems like fun but it really isn't. You just end up writing fluff pieces about bullshit that you don't care about. Maybe that was my problem. I didn't really care that much about XPac or his future.

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you have groupies?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I subscribe to SmartMoney, and Magnet.[/indie_guilt] Years ago I shared a New Yorker subscription with a housemate; I don't remember it being that expensive.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

if by "groupies" you mean "dorky little kids from the midwest who would IM you constantly," then yes and double yes (!!!) (xpost)

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

so...did they want to blow you?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

*ouch*

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

ouch for whom exactly? i'm the one who is getting blown (!!!)

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to subscribe to Current Archaeology, but didn't bother to keep getting it after I left university.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Current Archeology?

::falls off chair laughing at oxymoron::

OK, I'm done laughing now. I think we've still got 40,000 back issues of Archeology Today or something still in the spare room. Sigh. Not mine, HSA's mum's.

I haven't subscribed to a magazine since CTCL. Before that, is was Select. Every time I subscribe, the magazine goes out of business, so I've decided not to be the harbinger of doom.

― Psycho Kate (kate), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it was Current Archaeology. It was quite a thin thing, with articles that were interesting but not very meaty.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I'm sure it's called something like that. It's just funny. Cause you know, Archeology is anything but current, it's like, history and stuff. I think it's the Journal that HSA's mum gets. It's thick and academic looking. And bloody heavy!

― Psycho Kate (kate), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I subscribe to Cabinet. I used to get the New Yorker but got bored with it/never had time to read it. I wish I subscribed to Nest and a couple of literary journals also, but oh well, I'm overseas now and would have to pay more. I had a dream last night that I got a letter from the editor of Fence telling me that they had ceased publication and I was sad.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Cabinet? Wow, HSA is in the current issue. I think. (Or was it the last issue?) I didn't know it was a real magazine until he made me go and look for it.

― Psycho Kate (kate), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I like it a lot--don't have the current issue since it goes to my mom's house in the US. But I will read it when I go home in weeks! I will look for HSA. I think it's a nice place to be published--eclectic but with consistently nice quality and design.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to be suscribed to Time, lucky old me

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

SGS - Cool! Aparently it's an article about Sound Mirrors he's mentioned in, so keep an eye out for him.

― Psycho Kate (kate), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourite academic archaeology journal has always been Antiquity, just because it has so much varied stuff in it. One particularly interesting article I remember was from the mid-90s, on the archaeology of the Berlin Wall.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

2 mag subscriptions ever...

Select, one year (special offer, free kettle, 2 mugs and some coffee. Kettle got used loads, and is still 'reserve' for main kettle failure.)

Mojo (current), as freebie was Buzzcocks singles boxset.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I subscribe to two poetry mags and receive quite a few others from a friend once he's finished with them. (Yes, I am in fact a charity case. And i don't care.)

Magazine subscriptions make very good gifts I think.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I was quite tempted by that Buzzcocks boxed set as a free offer for Mojo actually.

My wife happily subscribes to the Horrible Histories magazines, which her class of 10 year olds adore. I doubt I'll see any ILXers in there.

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 26 March 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

I am now subscribed to Film Comment, The New Yorker, Wired, and XLR8R. This is great! I am thinking of subscribing to Travel + Leisure magazine, it is like proper TRAVEL PR0N!!!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

What is a good Mac magazine for me to subscribe to???

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Mrs N gets Vanity Fair.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

What is a good Mac magazine for me to subscribe to???

None. The problem with computing magazines is that they can't be more up to date than the news that's already announced and all over the web. I'd say just go to http://www.macuser.com if anything.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh. http://www.macworld.com but they both go to the same site, momentary brain seizure there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to get Vanity Faire, but we forgot to pay them, and they reported me to a collection agency! Fuckers! Magazines never do that.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Film Comment is pretty upsetting as far as subscriptions go, imo. I always get excited when I see that it has arrived but it is surprisingly low on content and is often mostly hearsay or redundancies.

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It IS pretty dry sometimes, but then so is Sight & Sound. Also I don't get to see half of the films I read about...

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to get Vanity Faire

kyle are you spelling this "the gaelic way"?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i got free subscriptions to the economist, food & wine, and spin from a credit card bonus point deal. in ideal world, i'd have subscriptions to mojo and heat.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. (xpost)

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got a subscription to Seed magazine, and I'd like to get one for O'Reilly's Make magazine when it comes out.

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

private eye innit

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've got ARTFORUM, FILM COMMENT, JUXTAPOZ, DETAILS and ESQUIRE. Light reading.

I've dumped Film Comment and Juxtapoz since, how many stories about Fincher script attachments or hot rod art does one man really need? I've only added Found Magazine, but will be picking up the glorious New American Paintings soon. (!!!)

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

TOO MANY MAGAZINES HELP!

― Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I need to suscribe to some more.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Tape Op, The Wire but just stopped The New Yorker because I don't have enough time to read it + other magazines + books AND have a life. Though I love the New Yorker.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I HATE seeing magazines that I subscribe to on the newstand before I get them in the mail!!!! This happens all the time. it never used to. It happened in philly as well as this rock i live on now. the new yorker, gq, harpers, the star, all my mags. it takes the fun out of getting them. everyone is already talking about the new louis menand piece or paris' new haircut and i have to wait and wait and wait!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago)

scott seward,

At least w/the New Yorker you can read it online, which in a pinch (meaning while my gf has it), is what I have been forced to do.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago)

New Yorker, Smithsonian, Wired, Film Comment

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago)

The New Yorker seems to get knocked from time to time for being too "upper crust" but survives those attacks because at it's best it's really fucking good.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's uppercrusty as much as New Yorky - and there's a huge overlap, admittedly, but it's mostly at the service of its target demographic.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I have subscriptions to Time, Newsweek, Wire, ESPN the Magazine and SportsNews, but I don't know how. I've been getting them regularly for three years but have never paid a dime. No one I know owns up to buying the subscriptions for me.

Other than that, I pay for subscriptions to ReadyMade magazine (DIY design/furnishings/etc.) and Juxtapoz (outsider art?).

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago)

I get the Believer too. And Rolling Stone. And Esquire. And Us Weekly. And Instyle. And Vanity Fair. As well as the ones I mentioned: Harpers, New Yorker, The Star, and GQ. And someone gave us The Nation as a gift, but I rarely read it. It's pretty bad. This month's Believer came with a reprint of the first issue of the legendary Army Man zine that the guy from the Simpsons started. Good interview with the Simpsons guy too. (George Meyer)

Oh, I also get the mag that is like Us & The Star, but I can't think of the name. In-something or other.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago)

I want to get Discover again. I like Discover. And we would get New Scientist if it weren't so expensive. I go back and forth on whether or not I want to get the New York Review Of Books. I think I do, but when I see it on the stand I rarely want to read anything in it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago)

I used to get The Nation several years ago and thought it was good. Now it seems bad. I wonder if I just got older or if something happened.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago)

It'a lot of ranting, not a whole lotta reporting. the ads don't do it any favors either. ani difranco looking quizzical doesn't do much for me. or trillin's pithy poems either. i do like greider though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago)

It's a lot like what people complain about on ILX. Bush is bad! In other news, Bush is REALLY bad! It's a rant zine. I understand the impulse, I enjoy a good rant, but to read it every week is a bit much.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I used to get a ton of magazines, haven't really in a couple years now.
At one time or another I subscribed to: Film Comment, Magnet, The Big Takeover, Die Hard Gamefan, EGM, Gamepro, Nintendo Power (my first ever subscription at age 8), Spin, Rolling Stone, Guitar World, Guitar For The Practicing Musician, Premeire, Entertainment Weekly, US....I'm sure there were more but you get the idea. There were also a bunch of magazines I collected but never subscribed to cuz they weren't any cheaper that way: Maximum Rock N Roll, Flipside, Punk Planet etc.

John Waters has over 100 magazine subscriptions. I had a list from Utne Reader at one point I could go look for later. It was fucking insane.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago)

DO I NEED TO READ JUXTAPOZ?

― Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Juxtapoz is cool.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Juxtapoz is worth reading, even the weak issues have something of merit. Their street-art special issue was k-lame, though. Mass Appeal-y graff artist meets art world/corporate sponsorship stuff.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago)

scott, this is why I don't want to subscribe to any knitting magazines, because I am always hearing how they arrive on the newstands before they get sent to subscribers! (Plus the discount is enough, haha)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 30 September 2004 03:46 (twenty years ago)

I am also debating whether to get Martha Stewart Everyday Food because I am paranoid it will fold once I send a check for it.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 30 September 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago)

we get Spin, American Thunder, Tape Op, and Popular Mechanics here.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 30 September 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

God, I love the New Yorker. I lay in bed this morning and read the whole article on baby products!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago)

in order to maintain my constant state of susceptability to alternative branding campaigns by brand's like Scion (HEY! I have one! FUCK : ( ) and Nike (hey, phil, those short films are awesome-- just come up with a couple of designs that i don't sound shitty when i'm not listening to the neptunes and i'm in!) i subscribe to RES, Wired, Dazed & Confused, Premiere, Film Comment, GQ, National Geographic, Ready Made, Creative Arts magazines, Tokion and The Believer... but i must stop as i rarely have time to read novels if i try to read all these. my girlfriend gets a bunch of fashion mags too.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 14 November 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago)

look shitty, not sound shitty... but some of those designs do seem to have more of a sound than a fully realized visual aesthetic... bah, anyhow, whatever...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 14 November 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Wire, Cook's Illustrated, Consumer Reports

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 14 November 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago)

The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's. And in theory Cooks Illustrated, although the first issue hasn't come yet. And I never can remember whether I've finally subscribed to Stay Free! or not.

Adam, did you end up getting Travel + Leisure? My old roommate got it and it was like an airplane magazine. Nearly impossible to read, your eyes just slid off the page.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 14 November 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I get bloody Spin. Which is worse than Wizard.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 14 November 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I've just subscribed to Mojo as one of the sweeteners is the the Elvis '68 Comeback 3DVD box set.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 14 November 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago)

The New Yorker
New York Review of Books
Vanity Fair
Gourmet
Wired
Vogue
I follow my dad's rule of subscribing to magazines w/o feeling guilty about how much of 'em you actually read. Esp. w/The NY'er you can let 'em pile up with the noble intention of "getting around to that John McPhee piece about tugboats someday."

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago)

They're still serializing that piece, eh?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago)

right now new york magazine is my favorite because it's pure fluff and I'm still a little queasy around hard news/politics (huge stack of economists waiting until I am well). Their delivery schedule out here in the midwest is wack though, I got two issues on wednesday and another on friday.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:00 (twenty years ago)

"getting around to that John McPhee piece about tugboats someday."

a town only like 12 miles from me got mentioned in that piece, + i've been not-too-seriously thinking about working on a barge...so hopefully i'll get around to reading it someday

why do liberals like the economist so much?? cuz it has lots of numbers?

― John (jdahlem), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago)

I got a free subscription to Giant from the internet and it's surprisingly good. I wouldn't pay for it or anything, but it's worth flipping through.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:26 (twenty years ago)

Right now, I subscribe to three magazines, all of which begin with the word "New":

New York Review of Books - hands down the one subscription I wouldn't let lapse
New Republic - I don't always agree with it, but they come out with enough interesting and timely political analysis that I keep reading it
New Yorker - the least read of the bunch, in fact if it weren't for the listings section I probably would have let my subscription lapse by now

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

The New Yorker piece about tugboats is great.

I have now added Artforum and a local photo 'zine called Hamburger Eyes.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I looked at Juxtapoz but it left me kind of cold.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Arthur.
I know it's free at stores, but I wanted one of those Bastet cd's that you can get with a subscription. I got that "Golden Apples of the Sun" comp, which is pretty damn good, but it has mysteriously disappeared from the jewel case. Plus, I wanted to support what it seriously the best new magazine getting published in America, even if the last two issues weren't all that mindblowing.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Juxtapoz always seems like it should be a gay magazine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Strike a poz, there's nothing to it.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

It would be better if it really was gay, I think. Maybe it should come out like Details did!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I have a subscription to BLENDER now, which is kind of embarrassing but fun.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Like all good things.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

SEED magazine has fucked up my subscription for the last 4 issues (i.e. not receiving them)

Despite these infuriating problems, it's a good read.

― Drake Beardoooo, Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Avoid Juxtapoz. It's better now than it has ever been but it is still pretty redundant. There's just not that much Tiki or Hot Rod related "art" content out there. Face it, guys.

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago)

How is New American Paintings?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I should start getting National Geographic again, yes? It would be a good randomizer function. And probably the Atlantic Monthly and maybe New York Review of Books.

I get the New Yorker, but can't remember if I pay for it or not. I don't read it often.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago)

my dad for ages has given me gift subscriptions to mags without taking into account my personality or interests. for years it was Readers Digest, which is pretty hilarious. then a year or so ago he called and said it was time to renew and would i like to maybe switch to Consumer Reports. ha! i said sure. the back page is funny sometimes. "this new cookie packaging says '10 percent more.' more what, we ask? it's actually .05 grams less than the previous packaging!"

my TapeOp recently ran out. need to renew or someting.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I should maybe get Consumer Reports too.

what about online subscriptions?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, I keep forgetting to change my Tape Op subscription, since we moved.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)

How is New American Paintings?

It's great but I wouldn't recommend it unless you were really into painting. It's $20 an issue and you get a thick glossy bound index of artists based on region. Each artist gets four pages - three for paintings and one for bio. It can be hit-or-miss as far as quality goes.

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Harper's
The Nation
Z Magazine (I just resubscribed recently)

I'd love to get more, but I hardly keep up with the ones I get. Politics is urgent to keep up with and I like the idea of supporting news coverage/analysis/propaganda that I think is valuable. Even if I could read a lot of it online, I don't mind paying a little bit for a subscription. (Of course, an ordinary subscription isn't going far in providing support.)

I've been enjoying the New York Review of Books more than I remember doing in the past, when I read issues of it, but it's kind of pricey.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Urgh, way too many.

I pay for: The Wire, The New Yorker, Macworld, Gourmet
On the comp list: An Honest Tune
My wife gets: Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly
Recently dropped: Wired, Southern Living, MacAddict

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 31 December 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Currently : New Yorker, Res, Artforum, Film Comment, and Dwell. I ditched Wired because it was hot and cold and I can just read Bruce Sterling's blog.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

And the Guardian Weekly! (if that counts)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

I do. I want to subscribe to two more, but in the past couple months, I haven't at all been keeping up with reading the three I get.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

i'm about to get subscriptions to:

businessweek
wsj
food & wine
wired

and either time or newsweek -- this is all part of a frequent-flyer deal so it's all free.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

i wish magazines would arrive BEFORE they showed up in teh stores, not after

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

Every day, I just drag a messenger bag full of magazines with me to work. I can't be without magazines!

I also have an OCDish problem with throwing them away, especially Artforum because I like looking at all the colorful spines lined up together.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

is travel and leisure any good or will it make me depressed? i used to know someone who worked there but i never really talked to him about it.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

xxp - yes that is annoying. Dr Morbius got his Film Comment, like, THREE days before mine arrived! but he's in NYC, so I suppose that makes sense.

xp - I LOVE Travel & Leisure but it I'm not sure what it would be like to actually, you know, pay for.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

and yes, it is a bit depressing, looking at all these places you will likely never get to (in my case, at least).

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

here's the magazines i would get if i got magazines:

new yorker
gourmet
entertainment weekly

i wish there were more good magazines out there these days!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'd LOVE to get gourmet but I feel like a lack a basic food education.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

Now that I'm taking French again, I would also love to find Les Inrockuptibles but you can't get it here.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

i could send you issues!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

seriously? you might regret saying that!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to try the Alliance Francasie but that's the only place I might find it.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

you would have to send me something san francisco-ish

burritos

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

sure.

I could stick a few in a padded envelope with some ngiri and a couple of dumplings.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

put a nice cocktail in there too--free pour

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

and a grime dj night

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

The New Yorker and The Wire are both coming up for renewal and I'm letting them both lapse. That leaves me with Gourmet and Macworld, and my wife gets a shitload more.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

and a grime dj night

ha, I'm not sure if these are still an SF thing!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Right now we get The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Control Engineering, Cook's Illustrated, One, and Gastronomica. Used to get The Believer, Slow, and because of a huge mixup - Practical Horseman. Sometimes I miss Slow, but never The Believer. I'm ambivalent about renewing Gastronomica - it's beautiful, generally has some interesting stuff, but Cook's is so much more practical.

Oh, and my sister got me a subscription to Bookmarks at xmas! That won't start until March.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

i'd do the believer.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

Cook's Illustrated

i want

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

The Believer's so twee and breathless. I couldn't take reading yet another interview of the sort: "OOOOOHHH! You write books!?!?! What's that like?!?" Just too precious or something for my jaded old brain.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

Cook's Illustrated is great fun. The editor guy's column is so, I don't know - New Hampshire-ish and they document all the things that go horribly wrong with their recipes, which I think is great. Their new one, Cook's Country (I think), was bad.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

What're the pros and cons of Artforum vs Art in America?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

Art in America is like Artnews, I think. Heavy emphasis on sales, prices, collectors, museums that are vanity pieces for the wealthy, etc.., leans kind of populist in the art featured.

Artforum is big, heavy, expensive, kind of boring to read at times, has a heavy emphasis on the contemporary art/gallery scene. Is, in its own way, almost as boring as the other status mags (Art in America, Artnews) only more appealing to thirtysomething yuppies instead of boomer yuppies.

My favorite art mag right now is Art on Paper, when I can find it.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

now:

the economist
harpers
atlantic monthly

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm letting my Wire sub slip too. I know I'll still read it in the shops though. And I do like having every issue for back-references. Maybe I should renew. Fuck it!

― Mestema (davidcorp), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

I am thinking about getting a subscription to Country Life - but I would have to get it sent to work, as my stupid postie bends everything that goes in the letterbox and the whole point of Country Life is the architectural pr0n luscious photos.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

I still love magazines

― Nano McPhee (admrl), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago)

probably going to subscribe to The New Yorker soon

― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:06 (fourteen years ago)

Vanity Fair though I'm regretting it with every new issue lately

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:07 (fourteen years ago)

I only subscribe to Decibel currently

― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago)

does anyone read Interview? i'm loving the celeb-orientated stuff but there's so much fashion bullshit i'm a little hesitant. also it just gives me a real "women's only" vibe.

― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:39 (fourteen years ago)

Just was given a subscription to The New Yorker for my birthday, really excited about this!

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago)

awesome!

― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:50 (fourteen years ago)

i just started this too! we're getting vf and harper's and the new yorker if i get my act together and order it.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:51 (fourteen years ago)

some subs are so insanely cheap

― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:52 (fourteen years ago)

new yorker subscription is something i can never imagine stopping, still amazes me they can put it out (almost) every week

― just sayin, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 07:57 (fourteen years ago)

my last magazine subscription was to gourmet (r.i.p.), but i've been thinking of subscribing to metropolis or good. it's nice to get real mail.

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/

http://www.good.is/magazine/

― corn smut (get bent), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:01 (fourteen years ago)

i've thought about getting saveur but i never read the food magazines or cookbooks i already own.

― corn smut (get bent), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:03 (fourteen years ago)

as far as other stuff, my bf and i get alumni magazines (binghamton and usc for me, macalester and calarts for him), i get a magazine from my toastmasters membership, and he gets something from the musician's union. up until last year, i got planning and japa, an academic planning journal.

― corn smut (get bent), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:09 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Cabinet magazine makes me so happy

― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

i get mother jones at the moment. good stuff.

― orinoco flowbee (get bent), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 22:04 (fourteen years ago)

i spent a long time weighing up whether or not to subscribe to the new yorker, b/c it is an international subscription & so more expensive (though still a steal & an awesome investment), and after all my detailed financial considerations i would seriously pay them $500 to mail it first class instead of second.

but yes magazines are great, subscribed ones & newsstand ones.

― (oboe interlude) (schlump), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 22:05 (fourteen years ago)

been wanting to check out lucky peach too:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/luckypeach

― orinoco flowbee (get bent), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 22:05 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

haaaa one of those magazine subscription scam artists just came to my door. i told him i was broke and he went away, but not without a smooth-talking spiel.

― ms. c flat (get bent), Friday, 14 October 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago)

My sister got me a gift subscription to Rolling Stone for the last two Xmases running! This year (without being an asshole about it) I'm gonna tell her thanks-but-no-thanks - I don't give a shit about their music coverage anymore (20 years ago woulda been OK); all I like nowadays is the political stuff.

(But yeah: in principle I like getting something to read in the mail every two weeks.)

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 14 October 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago)

I get New Yorker and Decibel now. And I guess technically I subscribe to SPIN, but via my Nook for only 50 cents an issue.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 14 October 2011 04:08 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Anyone else get magazines in the mail that they didn't subscribe to? We get a bunch of them like Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, Oprah?!?! and a few other ones. I guess they send them out so they can claim their circulations are larger than they really are, but we never paid for them. I usually cut my name off them and leave them on the bus or train.

― svend, Monday, 11 June 2012 01:12 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, we kept getting Self sent to us for no reason

― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Monday, 11 June 2012 02:03 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

Did we ever sort these magazines

― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 02:46 (nine years ago)

do you need sorting out

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 03:00 (nine years ago)

there haven't been any magazines for years...years...years...years...years...years

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 03:37 (nine years ago)

Some time a while back we bought an electric kettle to boil water. The clerk at the fancy store (Sur le Table) said we qualified for a FREE subscription to Bon Appetit magazine! I filled out the little card and gave it back to him. It has been coming regularly now for what seems like forever. Damn, is it a worthless rag. I'd stop it but I don't know how.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 03:54 (nine years ago)

my kids subscribe to loads of magazines

we just started getting the print nytimes again after years without, i feel like a chump for having gone so long without it

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 03:56 (nine years ago)

I got sort of psyched because I saw NY Review of Books copies in the recycling room in the name of the old dude who lives next door to me, kind of want to hang with him now.

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 04:00 (nine years ago)

We still get the print NYer and Nat Geo. While R does read the print edition, I mostly read it on my phone now, if at all, and generally both find most use as backing for doing the NYT crossword puzzle, which we print at home, and the privilege of doing so is the only thing we pay the NYT for.

Our print diet has led me to stop using adblockers online, but not to start signing up for microtransactions.

I feel like if I could sign up for an annual package that paid Balloon Juice, TPM, Eschaton, the entire Gawker stable, LGM, and maybe a few others that I dip into occasionally, and ILX (why not), we would gladly drop something in the upper two figures a year for that. Maybe there's a market gap in offering that kind of option. I don't want to just pitch $5 each to everything I like every few months or so, it's too much to think about. Basically I want eMusic for blogs.

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 04:04 (nine years ago)

I do prefer reading the NYer in print vs on my phone, never really get through longform articles on screen.

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 04:08 (nine years ago)

three months pass...

Bump!

$80 for one year sub for NY Review of Books. I really want it but that's pricey. I can't tell if it's weekly or biweekly?

I've been so bad about keeping up with my Scientific American and Harpers' subs recently (or not so recently - I'm more than a year behind in SA issues).

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 21:55 (nine years ago)

biweekly im p sure

― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 21:57 (nine years ago)

biweekly. it's better than harper's.

you also get access to the archives

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 22:38 (nine years ago)

so you can get further behind

― just sayin, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 02:37 (nine years ago)

i have v v v v complicated feelings abt harper's but it's so insanely cheap that it is sort of immune to evaluation

anyway subscribing to magazines rules

― bloat laureate (schlump), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 06:44 (nine years ago)

It does. Don't think I could subscribe to LRB (although any of your gift one-year subscriptions to me will be gratefully accepted). NYRB is tempting for the archive (when I first had a LRB sub I was so glad I had a not very intensive job, could read the archives all day - and with guys like Perry Anderson you need all of your day)

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 09:33 (nine years ago)

biweekly. it's better than harper's.
you also get access to the archives
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 22, 2016 6:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so you can get further behind
― just sayin, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 10:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, I big reason I keep falling behind is I started reading every Harper's issue from 1990 to the current day. This is what I do at work when I'm supposed to be working. Started about a year ago. I've just reached 1994, I think.

I would totally get lost on NYRoB's archives. *tempting*

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 24 March 2016 00:02 (nine years ago)

nyrb is biweekly but then rather less so during the summer

― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 March 2016 00:07 (nine years ago)

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