Rolling Stone lifetime subscription offer?

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Am I to understand this ad correctly? For $99, you can get a lifetime subscription to Rolling Stone? What's the catch here?

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the catch is you get Rolling Stone delivered to your house.

― hstencil, Friday, 20 February 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

hehe

― direct_program, Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The catch is that since they make money from advertising, not cover price, they need your eyeballs more than your crummy pocket change.

Here, search ebay for subscriptions and you won't pay more than $1/year.

After all, you might live 99 years, but Jann Wenner probably won't.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i wouldnt want rolling stone for free. really.

― ethyt, Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Can you cancel it?

In a few years I might have kids, and by then every cover will just be a photo of some starlet's gaping vagina. And, like, I'd like them to learn about sex the old fashioned way, through innuendo.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

99 Bucks! Y'all are a bunch of chumps-- just wait 'till the next economic bust. After the dot com bubble burst, I got an in the mail offer for a 50 year sub for 50 bucks. hard to turn that one down, so I didn't.

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven years pass...

Anybody want a free subscription to RS? I'm renewing mine and can apparently get a free gift subscr for 1 year - only US zips though.

― niels, Friday, 8 May 2015 17:48 (ten years ago)

five years pass...

I just noticed that Rolling Stone has finally put up a site-wide paywall, which is a shame because for years, you could access nearly every single feature/article, interview and review they've ever published, which made it a very handy (and free) resource.

― birdistheword, Saturday, 15 August 2020 23:54 (five years ago)

i wouldnt want rolling stone for free. really.
― ethyt, Friday, February 20, 2004 6:32 PM

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 16 August 2020 01:03 (five years ago)

i remember being excited when i realized that there were a bunch of lester bangs reviews on rolling stone's website that had never been collected. not very long afterward i concluded that there was a reason it hadn't been collected.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 16 August 2020 01:07 (five years ago)

just wait 'till the next economic bust

prescient

― Get your filthy hands off my asp (morrisp), Sunday, 16 August 2020 01:10 (five years ago)

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