I did in the past a couple of times. Back in the 70's I subscribed to FAMOUS MONSTERS.
In the 90's I subscribed to PSYCHOTRONIC VIDEO until it folded.
I even had 2 letters printed and contributed to an articale in #37, 2002!
If you look real close at the beginning of the text, you can see me name!
(I found out later that AFTER HOURS mag sells for a lot of money. I never got it back, either. :bluesad:
(https://i.imgur.com/amWnGt3.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/lLFyafz.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Yes, 2000AD for several years. I still have them.
No.
When I was a little kid and in the scouts, I got Boys Life.
When I was a bit older than that, I got Wizard Magazine.
Other than those two, I just bought magazines off the stands.
A long time ago I subscribed to ESPN the magazine.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on March 10, 2024, 06:36:32 AM
When I was a little kid and in the scouts, I got Boys Life.
(https://i0.wp.com/blog.scoutingmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Boys-Life-Nuns-Life-closeup.jpg?resize=800%2C400&ssl=1)
Lots of 'em. Most notably for this forum
(https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A666990216/datastream/TN_LARGE/view)
I stopped subscribing a decade ago but I think they are still going today.
pretty sure I subscribed to THE BEANO as a kid. I definitely had the dennis the menace membership wallet and a gnasher badge
also seem to remember subscribing to OINK!... a fairly subversive comedy kids' mag
(https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_small/8/85763/2473208-oink57.jpg)
Sure. I used to subscribe to a lot, now....not. I also own almost every National Geographic of the 20th century in print form, but despise what's been done with the journal over the last fifteen years, and no longer even read the modern iteration.
Magazines may become like vinyl records soon: hip, outside, valued again.
I subscribed to TIME for about fifteen years (even had a letter published in it once), and also to a hobby publication called INDIAN ARTIFACT MAGAZINE.
Still subscribe to PREHISTORIC AMERICAN.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 16, 2024, 07:25:04 PM
I subscribed to TIME for about fifteen years (even had a letter published in it once),
"....the only thing I want to see 'inside the mind' of a terrorist is a bullet...."
That was the one!!! I was a bit of a firebrand in those days.
Nah, it's a beautiful sentiment.
I had subscriptions to Rolling Stone and Penthouse for a while in the early 90s.
The RS sub was a Christmas gift from a well meaning relative who must have thought "He loves that rock 'n 'roll music, so he'll like this!" even though RS had nothing but contempt for my favorite style of music (hard rock/metal) and therefore I despised it with every fiber of my being (and still do).
The Penthouse sub was a gift to myself, if you know what I mean (wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more, say no more). :D
At one time my wife subscribed to Rachael Ray's magazine and Entertainment Weekly but those subs lapsed a long time ago.
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on March 17, 2024, 05:26:51 PM
I had subscriptions to Rolling Stone and Penthouse for a while in the early 90s.
The RS sub was a Christmas gift from a well meaning relative who must have thought "He loves that rock 'n 'roll music, so he'll like this!" even though RS had nothing but contempt for my favorite style of music (hard rock/metal) and therefore I despised it with every fiber of my being (and still do).
The Penthouse sub was a gift to myself, if you know what I mean (wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more, say no more). :D
At one time my wife subscribed to Rachael Ray's magazine and Entertainment Weekly but those subs lapsed a long time ago.
If you were getting
Penthouse and didn't like
Rolling Stone (and who does?), I'm surprised you didn't try
Spin, which was put out by the same people, and usually much better.
Quote from: ER on March 17, 2024, 05:39:01 PM
If you were getting Penthouse and didn't like Rolling Stone (and who does?), I'm surprised you didn't try Spin, which was put out by the same people, and usually much better.
I did pick up the occasional issue of
Spin off the newsstand back then, but like
RS, they only rarely paid attention to hard rock/metal and even when they did, it was the usual over-exposed suspects like Metallica, Nirvana, etc., etc. who I was sick of reading about anyway.
When it came to metal mags back then I preferred
Metal Hammer and
Metal Forces from the U.K. Most of the American metal mags, which were basically glam rock pin-up rags, flogged the same ol' crap month after month. The British mags were more in tune with my tastes, which was more "underground."
Unfortunately, subscribing to them would've been prohibitively expensive for me in the U.S., so I contented myself with picking up issues when I I came across them at record stores/newsstands/bookstores.
During the 1990s, the only decent metal mag from the US was the greatly missed
Metal Maniacs, which I read religiously. I even had a couple of letters printed in their "mail" section during that time, which was a fanboy bucket list thing for me. :D
^ "For most of the 1990s, the only decent metal mag from the US was the greatly missed Metal Maniacs, which I read religiously. I even had a couple of letters printed in their "mail" section during that time, which was a fanboy bucket list thing for me. :D"
I LOVED that magazine!
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 17, 2024, 05:57:00 PM
^ "For most of the 1990s, the only decent metal mag from the US was the greatly missed Metal Maniacs, which I read religiously. I even had a couple of letters printed in their "mail" section during that time, which was a fanboy bucket list thing for me. :D"
I LOVED that magazine!
Hell yeah! \m/
Mad Magazine I had a subscription for.
Fangoria for a bit.
Not "magazines" per se , but several Marvel titles. Hulk, Spiderman, Avengers and Iron Man, couple others sporadically