http://torrentfreak.com/are-pirates-freetards-111005/
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
Used to enjoy reading Q Magazine in the mid '90s. Less so now.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
i have to say i never enjoyed it
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
who are the freetards
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
i remember it in the 6th year common room at school in 89/90. was always u2/sting/phil/eric/dire straits in it. i bet whoever used to bring it in would be all embarrassed now.
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
good question zs. i assume its downloaders.
I pretty much started reading it in about late '95/early '96 and stopped reading around '98(!)
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
was that when it was all britpop?
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't have said it was ALL Britpop, but Britpop was certainly covered in 1995/1996. As I guess it was in a lot of UK magazines.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
was it collins and co who was in charge then? i remember it definitely started targeting a much younger audience
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
it was far from all Britpop aye. the cover may have been Supergrass/etc but inside was still very Sheryl Crow and Texas heavy etc. it was pretty good in the Kelly/Collins eras IMO.
― piscesx, Thursday, 10 May 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
No-one's mentioned the late Tom Hibbert's Who The Hell...? interviews that used to be at the front of the mag. They were unfailingly excellent.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:30 (twelve years ago) link
I bought the most recent (Plan B) issue to read on the train, as a few people on Twitter said it had improved under A.H. I thought so too; there were marked signs of improvement throughout. Good Rumer feature in particular.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
so what is the freetards article about?
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 May 2012 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
all torrenters are freetards but not all freetards are torrenters
― Gentlemen Take Instagram Photos (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 10 May 2012 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
Lengthy feature by Eamonn Forde, titled "How free is ruining everything", although it's more impartially written than that. Interviews with people on different sides of the argument (Pirate Party leader, PRS economist, FAC spokesman) plus industry observers, legals etc.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 10 May 2012 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
is it any good?
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
The freetards piece is a bit too long, but Q is at least now doing some proper journalism after years of just packaging everything into lists. A year ago that feature would have been "The 100 biggest freetards in music." With an inexplicable John Mellencamp interview in the middle of it.
Everything about Q feels better: headlines, captions, front section. Feels like it's being done by people who enjoy both magazines and music, which hasn't been the case for a while.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
also people who enjoy the word "freetards"
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 May 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
I decided to bin all Qs post 2002. So should this be purchased? That recent Kasabian cover was one of the worst things to ever happen
― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Saturday, 12 May 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
The Kasabian cover was an all-time low. I had a Gillian Welch interview in that issue and when I saw the cover I thought, well there go any readers who might possibly want to read a Gillian Welch interview.
― Get wolves (DL), Saturday, 12 May 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
um "freetards"? really? um.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Saturday, 12 May 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
we have a long way to go.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Saturday, 12 May 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
I don't like the word but it's pretty common, no? Q didn't make it up.
― Get wolves (DL), Saturday, 12 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
by coincidence i was just talking to a friend today about how widespread "retard" still is, inc among kids who know racist/homophobic slurs are not ok, and he brought up the Q cover. it was part of my vocabulary until a few years ago, it's something i've had to consciously eradicate, and while i wouldn't say i take huge offense when i hear people use it, it's not something i expect to see emblazoned on the front cover of a national music mag, just like i wouldn't expect a hilarious pun on, idk, "faggot" or "slut" to be there either
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Saturday, 12 May 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Hope it doesn't go pop, it's been really great for the last few years. Are we talking about this on another thread? My bad if so.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
Who do the British seemingly hate Q Magazine?
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
Stay tuned... pic.twitter.com/cOwLZSpPt8— Q Magazine (@QMagazine) November 15, 2023
a digital version to be (re)launched ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:49 (five months ago) link
Ted Kessler on X/Twitter: "An American publisher has leased title. No former staff or freelancers involved."
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Thursday, 16 November 2023 01:19 (five months ago) link