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>talking with freinds i havent seen in years
>talking about what we have been doing since university
>one guy says hes trying to get a magazine going.
>i started laughing unintentionally.

When was the last time you actually purchased a magazine?, not a finely made book, but a magazine?
anyone?

>> No.2669692

2 years ago I think. After getting a tooth pulled. I just wanted some distraction.

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2669695

I still get a couple sent to the house for coffee table and toilet fodder, but you're right, its a dying industry forced to use breast feeding exploitative covers to regain five minutes of relevance.

THAT BEING SAID....there are still lots of tiny literary mags and journals out there, and more power to them. Nobody is gonna get rich doing it, but if it's their passion, then by all means do what makes you happy. Don't forget to ignore the gigling little faggots who bring nothing to the table but some snarky comments on a CP and gore-ridden website inhabited by shut-ins and social pariahs.

>> No.2669701

i bought an issue of the new scientist a few months back because it was talking about a chicken genetically altered to bear similarities to a dinosaur and the chick hatched with sharp teeth on its beak rim. only magazine i've bought since 1997

>> No.2669702

I have a subscription to vice magazine and new scientist. I like having something on my glass coffee table for my customers to flick through while I weigh out their drug too.

>> No.2669713

>and toilet fodder

man that kindle was the best £60 i ever spent.

>> No.2669716

>>2669702
>tfw your dealer doesn't care enough about you to do anything but let you watch two and a half men episodes that are playing in the background

>> No.2670212

I get the Atlantic, but only on Kindle. I still think of it as a magazine because of its structure.

I think a related question is: Are there any magazines anyone wants to read anymore? Most magazines, like most newspapers, are tabloid trash. It's like the old Onion Joke: "Time announces new version of magazine aimed at adults"

>> No.2670218

>>2670212
new yorker
new scientist
vice

all worth a subscription IMHO

and there are more niche industry specific-stuff that's worth a subscription, like wooden boat magazine, or fantastic man. you know, if you are into that kind of stuff, that is.

>> No.2670235

the new yorker
the economist

>> No.2670238

>>2670212
>Atlantic
>amazing
>TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TT81o4hL4c

>Also expensive "Salons" where interest groups pay fat cash to "Debate" "journalists"

Middlebrow retards all over this board, every fucking day.

>> No.2670240

>>2670238

Aw fuck I didn't even finish reading that post. How is the Atlantic not in the same boat?

>> No.2670246

I've got a subscription to National Geographic, and I enjoy it.
Didn't expect to be so alone here.

>> No.2670267

I subscribed to Current History for a few years.

>> No.2670281

Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Mainly for nostalgia and to unwind after a long, hard day being an intellectual.

>> No.2670305

I have subscriptions to Mother News and N+1. Get Smoke Signal every release.

>> No.2670384

I can't remember the last time I bought a magazine in a store, but I have been subscribed to National Geographic for around a year now.

>> No.2670401

I'm probably going to subscribe to the Paris Review soon.

>> No.2670413

>>2669695
>toilet fodder

I occasionally buy an Empire or Total Film for these purposes.

>> No.2670422

THE LAST SPACETIME THAT II BOUGHT A MAGAZINE WAS APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS AGO.

>> No.2670437

I have subscriptions to The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, and I'd like subscriptions to Lapham's Quarterly and BOMB.

>> No.2671059

i buy the ring magazine every month

>> No.2671384

I used to get Game Informer, and CCS. These days my sister gets Nat Geo and I read that from time to time.

>> No.2671394

how can you even spend enough time in the toilet to merit reading? you must have bowel problems

>> No.2672576

Most magazines are now indistinguishable from advertising. RIP traditional publishing.

My favorites are Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated. I still think those have the most consistently good writing of any magazines out there. My theory is that musicians and sports players can always find common ground without lapsing into political duckspeak like The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Think Neil Young talking about guitars with Ted Nugent, or Hunter Thompson talking about college football with Nixon.

>> No.2672579

>>2671394
This. I'm done shitting in less than a minute.

>> No.2672803

I "read" High Fructose, but that's because I hate looking at art on a computer screen