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The Wire. I've let my subscription to the LRB lapse due to lack of time, or to be more accurate - reading the LRB reduced my time to read books which I thought was against the spirit of the thing.

Anyway, The Wire - classic IMHO. That's all - et toi?

― Minky Starshine (Minky Starshine), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wire, The New Yorker, Time Out New York.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of this, some of that. Discover, Smithsonian, Games, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

gigantic asses

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Right now, I only subscribe to McSweeney's and the Atlantic Monthly. I might renew my subscription to Harper's at some point.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

You admitting a crack habit, jess? *ba-BOOM!*

― Minky Starshine (Minky Starshine), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

As pointed out on magazines , people don't subscribe to magazines as much in the UK.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The magazine subscriptions I have no idea how I got hooked up with:

Rolling Stone, Details, Reader's Digest

The magazines I actually intended to have a subscription with:

Spin, Parenting (though it's filth and assumes only moms read it), Sesame Street (for my son), Downbeat

And then there's This Old House, which I didn't subscribe to originally, yet they sent it to my apartment every month, even after writing letters telling them I neither ever paid for nor ever read their magazine, and didn't they notice anything funny about the fact that they were sending it to an apartment?. After a year of still receiving it, I bought a house, and suddenly had no reason to cancel my strange free subscription.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Arse. I really should check the archives - didn't realise we'd talked about this so recently...

― Minky Starshine (Minky Starshine), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Harpers, New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Spin, Rolling Stone, Blender, The Source & Vibe

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

London Review Of Books

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

none, but I buy Venus and Nylon whenever I see new issues.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Been meaning to subscribe to Big Takeover so I dont have to hunt down a copy but Im to lazy to get a money order.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

New Yorker, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Consumer Reports, Jane (at home)

Rolling Stone, Spin, Time, US News, Atlantic Monthly, Radio & Records, Paper, Performing Songrwiter (at work, i.e. I don't pay for them).

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Nat'l Geographic, Discover, URB (big mistake), XLR8R

Can anyone recommend a good travel magazine? One that talks about locations/peoples, not just about airfare deals and whatnot.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

no CMJ teeny?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Cicada, American Heritage

I was seduced by the old hardcover copies of AH in the school library, with their black-and-white pictures and drawings of great big ships. Today it's all ADS though.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

CMJ is interesting but I don't work at a college radio station. I would still read it if someone else paid for it, though.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

golf digest, and soon the economist.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I meant for work, Im taking a random guess that you work in PR or in the royalties area.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I buy the wire (don't know why i bother sometimes) and sometimes the LRB.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Big evil commercial radio actually.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The only one I get on subscription is When Saturday Comes. I buy a few dance music mags every month, but it's different ones. I rarely miss Knowledge.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Well its makes even more sense, some commercial radio station subscribe to CMJ, alt.rawk CFNY and the more classic rock leaning Q107 (whose legal call letters I always forget) in Toronto are supposedly subscribers but nonreporting.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

this month's wire is the worst thing ever, and the editorial...

― zemko (bob), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Scientific American, Trans-Siberian Intercontinental Railway Newsletter (*sigh* I only got one!).

― cprek (cprek), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Sports Illustrated and Cooks Illustrated. Used to subscribe to Aboriginal SF, and I thought they'd folded but I think I saw an issue in the store the other day. Used to subscribe to Mag of SF&F but they had a spree of bleh stories (well, bleh for them, which is still fairly good) just before the renewal notice, so I didn't, and regret it (the newsstands all understock it here, it seems). I subscribe to Ultimate Spider-Man and Shonen Jump, but those are comics.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Devil in the Woods

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Private Eye.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Minky, is that a Seefeel reference or am I horribly befuddled?

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Saveur and The Big Takeover.

If I had the money, McSweeney's, Glimmer Train, The Wire, Sound Collector, Bananafish, Home Power, The Atlantic Monthly, Cabinet, Variety, The Baffler, The Idler, Tin House, Adbusters, and a few other zines would also be on the list.

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Wax Poetics also appears worthwile.

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

just the Creative Review for me - i keep meaning to go thru all the issues and cut out all the things i like and make a collage, but first i think i need some makeshift dungarees

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I subscribe to the Wire. I have the last three months' issues sitting here, still unopened, sealed in cellophane. Not boasting - just a fact.

― David (David), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Foreign Affairs, Car and Driver, This Old House, American Mix

― No One (SiggyBaby), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Minky, is that a Seefeel reference or am I horribly befuddled?

Heh. Yes it is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Harper's and the Nation. I would love to have lots of others, but can't justify the cost (especially given the actually chances of my getting around to reading them). I look at a stuff at work (in a librar) as well, but I don't always have time, and am not consistent about it: the Wire, Songlines, and some other music publications, Bible Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education (mostly to make me feel better about not pursuing a Ph.D.), the Atlantic Monthly, not much else lately. My doctor's office sometimes has: Scientific American, Vibe, U.S. News & World Report, New Yorker, which I sometimes look at there. Today when I went to my allergist, I was surprised to see a couple recent issues of Art News. (I used to read a lot of magazines (art, politics, science, etc.) regularly when I was in high school, since I had a light schedule and spent lots of time in the library reading what I wanted. It's frustrating to realize I kept up with more magazines back then than I do now.)

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Guardian Weekly! More news than you can get from any US source.

― Arizona Jim, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Tribune, London Review of Books and When Saturday Comes. I could take any more, though occasionally buy 442 when taking a long train journey and always end up disappointed by it.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

''this month's wire is the worst thing ever, and the editorial...''

yes they are usually terrible.

I think the issue itself is alright: I liked bits of the paul dolden interview. I said bits.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Mojo, Uncut and When Saturday Comes.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Sight'n'Sound

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Geez...he really rips into Hornby's 31 Songs in this month's Wire editorial. Can't really comment on it 'cos I haven't read the book or listened to the songs but it seemed unfair to complain about the arbitrainess of the choice of 31 - if Ornette Coleman or Sun Ra or someone released something similiar he'd probably have no qualms about the wacky choice of 31. Of course, 42 would have been preferable. Or maybe 31 was all taht would fit on a cee dee?

― Minky Starshine (Minky Starshine), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i rather enjoyed the new "Word" mag

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

None, but I buy Heat every week.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

''if Ornette Coleman or Sun Ra or someone released something similiar he'd probably have no qualms about the wacky choice of 31.''

yeah the fact that's its 31 doesn't matter. or what he put in. its just that hornby basically can't give reasoning (this from the quotes given in the editorial).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 27 February 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

New Yorker, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Consumer Reports, Jane (at home)
Rolling Stone, Spin, Time, US News, Atlantic Monthly, Radio & Records, Paper, Performing Songrwiter (at work, i.e. I don't pay for them).

-- teeny (teen...), February 25th, 2003 3:15 PM. (teeny)

It's getting worse. Now I have a new job and so none of those magazines, but this is what I now get at home:

Weekly: Newsweek, the Economist, New York, the New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly
Monthly: Spin, Blender, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Wired, Consumer Reports, Vanity Fair, and like I think Forbes or something similar-haven't gotten the first issue of that one yet.

I read all of them cover-to-cover too, except sometime I do get behind on the economists of course. :( Do I win?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 13 February 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

New Yorker, Smithsonian, Wired, Nat'l Geographic.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 13 February 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

signt and sound

― qbert (Danny), Sunday, 13 February 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

but with an h. damn spell checking.

― qbert (Danny), Sunday, 13 February 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Weekly: Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, New Yorker
Monthly: The Wire, Macworld, Gourmet, MacAddict (even though I don't think I'm paying for it)
Dropped recently: Wired
Finally managed to cancel after wrangling with a 3rd party subscription reseller: Southern Living

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 13 February 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

I've never had a subscription to a magazine, I don't think. No, wait, when I was a student I got two literary magazines, both long gone, one called Gambit and one called Bananas. The mags I get sent now I get sent because I've contributed to them. If the pay is insignificant, I often ask for a subscription instead of a dollar check that's going to mean nothing after conversion and bank charges are taken out of it.

I get Vice and Studio Voice sent to me monthly. Sometimes Index. I buy The Wire and Frieze, sometimes de:bug. A lot of the magazines I like most are in languages I can't even read, which makes me preposterously pretentious. But I don't actually think magazines are about 'reading' per se. They're talismanic, they're affiliations, they're about leaps of faith and clusters of values. You don't want to read them too much because that just complicates what's essentially a faith issue.

This link between mags and values is why this thread is so interesting. I'd like us all to do a thread in which we sign our names with the names of the magazines we subscribe to. You'd get 'Creative Review and The Wire' disagreeing with 'Country Life and Cars and Drivers', with 'NME' chiming in and being ignored. And all the conflicts and alliances would be plotted out even before anyone even spoke.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 13 February 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

I have a free subscription to the Journal for the American Society for Information Science and Technology. I'm ashamed to admit that I've received four issues and haven't read a single one. I want to subscribe to Oxford Poetry, but I haven't got around to it yet.

― youn, Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Currently, Popular Mechanics and Spin. I'm also apparently on the mailing list for almost every magazine I've ever written for, so I get tons of music mags but rarely read them.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 13 February 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

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