How much money do you spend on Music Mags each month?

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I work two overnight shifts a week, so I go right through them. Even the sucky ones. Rolling Stone, Spin, Blender, Q and fucking Mojo.

Shit adds up.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Maybe 6-20 dollars depending on whether the free Knowledge CD looks good or I pick up something to read while I am on a bus or something.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

The last couple of months, I've got it down to nothing. :)

(unless Sound on Sound counts)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I photocopy every page of Mojo, Q, and Blender from the local library every month. Costs about $13-$14 total.

― richard wood johnson, Friday, 14 October 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

What, even the adverts?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 14 October 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 14 October 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

about 10 bucks, i get plan b and gonzo for free, i buy wire and oor

whatever, i dont know. i just buy wire and oor

― rizzxeheheh (Rizz), Friday, 14 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

i read the decibel reviews at the newsstand and buy every second or third issue. it's really a good magazine--smart writers who don't talk down to the readers, plus it's funny. uniquely good. i always imagine some smart twelve year old reading the reviews and getting turned on to godflesh or ar kane. i used to buy the wire but now do quite well without it.

― dan (dan), Friday, 14 October 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I only buy music mags in airports. so, about 15 bucks a year.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 14 October 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 14 October 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Subscriptions to Blender and Tracks (the latter now shifted to Paste) + occasional whim purchases = roughly $3-5/month.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 14 October 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

$0. Are any of them worth reading? Maybe I'm just jaded but I gave up on music magazines a long time ago. I can get all the information I want about music online these days and it's a lot more informative and interesting than anything I can read in a magazine.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 14 October 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

depends on how many train or bus rides I take that month, I usually buy one per. I'd say on average maybe $5 a month (I skim through the Billboard at Tower Records every week, though).

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 14 October 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Just go read them at newstands. Paying is for suckers.

― splates (splates), Saturday, 15 October 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Every once in a while I'll find one I like - I bought a few issues of The Sound Projector and Popwatch over the last few years. But generally the net is faster and more varied and I can read more opinions about things. So I'd have to say $0 as well these days.

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

$0 - They're almost never worth it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

Too true. I find some of them even hard to finish. By the time I get to the reviews section of Spin or Roling Stone, I'm usually so put off that I'm more inclined to toss the fucker across the room.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

the only one I'd drop money on would be The Big Takeover, which probably has about ten times as much to read than another, similarly priced mag.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

I still think I'd rather read SPIN cover-to-cover than any other music mag out there right now.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

To be fair, it's partly because my musical tastes are sort of spotty, so it's unlikely there will be more than one artist I really have any interest in reading about in any single issue of any magazine.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

maybe $20 every couple of months - mojo sometimes if it looks interesting, plan b when I can find it. I've dropped right off too.

― haitch (haitch), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

oh, and the wire occasionally. usually I can just borrow someone else's copy of that though.

― haitch (haitch), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

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