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  • Magazines
  • dogbert
    Free Member

    What do other people buy in a month? I think i might have OCD after I totted up what i’ve bought:

    EVO
    Singletrack
    Mojo
    Uncut
    Wired
    Total Film
    Empire
    Top Gear
    XBOX 360 Gamer
    Stuff
    Guitarist

    at an average price of 4 quid, thats £44 give or take in a month…..what a waste. I’ve taken a subscription with Wired and will go cold turkey on the rest…….jebus that’s a lot of tat cluttering up the house

    DezB
    Free Member

    Singletrack
    MBR

    Still never get round to reading them. (currently on Singletrack 61 (Nov 2010)

    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    I used to be a magazine fiend, but as more magazine-style content is available online, I have cut back almost completely.

    Now, I take:

    Singletrack – subscription
    Rouleur – subscription
    Ride Journal
    Intelligent life (maybe twice a year)

    Of these, only Rouleur and Ride Journal are kept. The rest are recycled.

    Drac
    Full Member

    My subscriptions:

    What Digital Camera
    Singletrack
    Ride – well I order it as there’s no subscription
    Privateer – 2nd issue is off the the printers
    Top Gear – Xmas present from MIL

    I may occasional pick up Empire or a gadget type one from a shop.

    DaveyBoyWonder
    Free Member

    Now and again Dirt. Every month, Performance VW.

    cheese@4p
    Full Member

    Singletrack and Climb now but I used to get through a lot more

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    dont buy any regularly – not even this here mag

    ill look in the shop – if the content is relevent to something im interested in and the cover looks interesting ill buy it and read it ….

    generally only buy mags if im going on a long plane/train journey …

    once bought FHM and nuts for the guys i was working with in africa as they asked me to bring out the new ones when i came back …. i tried to read them on the plane – it was like reading an argos catalogue with boobs haha – you must have this gadget in your life !

    Hairychested
    Free Member

    4X4 Magazine
    Linux Forum
    Charlie and Lola
    Dirt
    I read Singletrack oo the web and Easons don’t stock it.

    Munqe-chick
    Free Member

    Ourmaninthenorth: Rouleur gets GOOOD money on ebay!!
    Nowt occasionally Tri 220, Runners World or Marie Claire (which I then realise is just full of perfume or expensive clothes adverts).

    andytherocketeer
    Full Member

    Singletrack
    C+ (some interesting stuff… but don’t need a full catalogue of every bike availabel in the UK each month 😕 )
    just cancelled Linux Format, cos it was verging on extortion (and all the freebie stuff is available c/o broadband a good 2 months before the bendy cover DVD)
    cancelled everything else years ago. might pick up the occasional Top Gear mag or MBR/MBUK etc. if in the UK.

    momo
    Full Member

    Subscribe to Evo (have done for years) and Dirt (taken out for the free chainguide offer). Usually buy Fast bikes, and occasionally buy MBUK, MBR, Singletrack and Rhythm if there’s something I want to read. Used to buy a lot more, but really cut down a couple of years ago when I realised I was spending £40+ a month.

    mastiles_fanylion
    Free Member

    (is really surprised no-one yet has mentioned Razzle, MILF Monthly or Asian Unshaven Big Boobied Amateur Grannies)

    DezB
    Free Member

    ourmaninthenorth – Member

    Intelligent life

    Wassat abart then?

    franki
    Free Member

    I only buy Singletrack now. It’s the only bike mag I find suits my cycling interests and I still think it’s always a good read.

    Used to buy MBR, What MTB and the odd MBUK and occasional music magazine, but decided it was a waste of money as most of the time I only read the odd article.

    buzz-lightyear
    Free Member

    Just Singletrack, from my LBS for extra virtue.

    StirlingCrispin
    Full Member

    Dirt
    Singletrack
    AtoB

    Fit that in your demographic!

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    regular reads – Country Life, The Field, Private Eye, The Economist (Mainly when travelling), MBR and MBA (Although haven’t bought either for about 6 months)

    JonEdwards
    Free Member

    I get the missus to flirt Dirt out of the lbs – wouldn’t buy it very often if I had to pay for it. Other than that, Ride Journal, Evo very occasionally.

    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    Wassat abart then?

    It’s a quarterly lifestyle magazine from the Economist. there’s some interesting things in there, but I only buy it when I need something lightweight and fluffy.

    TijuanaTaxi
    Free Member

    Cancelled all my subs to magazines, much too expensive for the content and then just to get binned

    Got a stall in our local market that sells month or two old magazines for a quid each or three for two pound fifty. Bought fifteen quids worth of photography magazines there this week for £2.50, does for me

    richmtb
    Full Member

    Don’t have any now, use to be EVO, Edge, WhatMTB and Singletrack,

    Now I just buy a magazine when I’m in the airport!

    mogrim
    Full Member

    Subscribe to C+, every now and then I buy a Spanish MTB mag, occasionally the Economist, and the Spanish edition of BBC History.

    Been trying to cut down, like the OP if I’m not careful I end up spending a fortune on the things.

    iDave
    Free Member

    Monocle – for work and general interest
    Peak Performance – for work

    That is all

    Reluctant
    Free Member

    Can’t remember the last time i bought a magazine of any description. 😕

    rightplacerighttime
    Free Member

    We used to get The Week and Homebuilding and Renovating.

    Cancelled them both about 18 months ago during one of our periodic attempts to de-clutter.

    Can’t say I missed them.

    toaster93
    Free Member

    They really are ridiculously overpriced, however my two favourite are:-

    Mini Magazine and MBUK

    I’ll perhaps get them once every six months, or whenever I have a WHSmiths voucher 😆

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    bravohotel8er
    Free Member

    I used to subscribe to the Spectator, Thrasher, Whitelines, Skyscraper and Punk Planet

    These days I have a subscription to Private Eye and that’s it.

    I occasionally buy a magazine if I’ve got a long rail journey.

    GlitterGary
    Free Member

    Viz.

    emma82
    Free Member

    MBR
    MBUK
    Singletrack and sometimes Dirt.

    Used to buy Ok, More, grazia etc but then realised they were half the problem with my self esteem issues. Funnily enough since I stopped buying them and starting buying magazines that are interesting I’ve not had the same issues and am much happier. Bikes are the future I tell yee! 🙂

    BadlyWiredDog
    Full Member

    Outside, though my subscription’s expired and I’m not sure I can justify renewing it. Weekend Grauniad and Observer. And that’s pretty much it. I’m off bike mags. Very occasionally buy house porn and look at glossy pictures of sofas, cushions and unlikely loft conversions, then buy bike components instead.

    keefus
    Free Member

    I only subscribe to Singletrack but where I work we print Cycling Weekly, Cycling Active, Monocle,and loads of others so never short of something to read. (Monocle is brilliant! bleedin expensive gear but brilliant)

    IanMunro
    Free Member

    Model Engineer and Gardener’s World.
    The shame 🙂

    NonStopNun
    Free Member

    Singletrack

    Procycling

    American-V

    CountZero
    Full Member

    Still sub to Bike (USA) and Singletrack, but I’m going to let Bike lapse, and I may cancel Singletrack. I used to buy MBUK every month, and Dirt regularly, but I’ve rather lost interest in bike porn, the only thing I miss about MBUK is Mint, and I really miss that, but I can’t justify buying the mag for that one page. I buy Wired and Word, because there’s loads to read in them, and Word has a good cd every month.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    I subscribe to to the hitherto unmentioned SFX. I tend to buy random mags when they have articles in them that I actually want to read or I’m utterly devoid of reading material, so that might be an Xbox magazine, movies, music, Viz, whatever really.

    I don’t buy bike magazines cos the other half gets all of them (including a sub to Singletrack of course). She also randomly gets Grazia, Wired, Kerrang, Private Eye, Heat, Q, New Scientist, some weird “send me some random mags” subscription, the Guardian, and christ only knows what else.

    Anything she’s bought that I might want to read goes onto a pile next to my half of the bed; the pile’s easily a foot high right now.

    user-removed
    Free Member

    ST subs just ran out – I will be re-subscribing though! Other than that, I buy the occasional armfull of wedding magazines just to see what my clients are being told to expect…. My God, but there’s some utter tripe being peddled in bridal mags!

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    the only thing I miss about MBUK is Mint, and I really miss that, but I can’t justify buying the mag for that one page.

    I couldn’t agree more.

    Baron_von_drais
    Free Member

    Used to get Evo, Performance VW and MacFormat every month with Singletrack and Cycling Plus occasionally.
    Don’t bother with anything anymore apart from when we go on holiday.
    My wife bought me a Top Gear about two months ago and it is still unread by the side of the bed.

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