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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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

DO I NEED TO READ JUXTAPOZ?

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

Juxtapoz is cool.

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Wire, Cook's Illustrated, Consumer Reports

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

I get bloody Spin. Which is worse than Wizard.

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

They're still serializing that piece, eh?

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Juxtapoz always seems like it should be a gay magazine.

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

Strike a poz, there's nothing to it.

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

Like all good things.

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

How is New American Paintings?

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

I should maybe get Consumer Reports too.

what about online subscriptions?

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

And the Guardian Weekly! (if that counts)

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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