Do you subscribe to magazines?

(ahem xp)

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

Haha, when did I become a Yuppie?

I applied for a job at Bitch! ;)

::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.

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

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

i want

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.

the economist
harpers
atlantic monthly

I still love magazines

probably going to subscribe to The New Yorker soon

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

I only subscribe to Decibel currently

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.

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

awesome!

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.

some subs are so insanely cheap

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

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/

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

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.

Cabinet magazine makes me so happy

i get mother jones at the moment. good stuff.

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.

been wanting to check out lucky peach too:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/luckypeach

xp

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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

Did we ever sort these magazines

do you need sorting out

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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).

biweekly im p sure

biweekly. it's better than harper's.

you also get access to the archives

so you can get further behind

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

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)

biweekly. it's better than harper's.

you also get access to the archives

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so you can get further behind

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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*

nyrb is biweekly but then rather less so during the summer