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NutBucket

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Aug 30, 2000
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Originally posted by: OS
Originally posted by: NutBucket
Originally posted by: OS
dunno, I'm stilling thinking about getting one of those "import whores" magazines cause they look cool.

DO IT!!

I actually just subscribed to Sport Compact Car. I also get Time and Popular Mechanics but the latter is now garbage.

lol, actually i was looking at import tuners cause they have a monthly cover skank in addition to tech stuff, but it's like $30 a year.

Yeah, seems that most of the import rags don't have discount subs; import tuner, super street, turbo, SCC, etc.
 

knivox

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Jun 29, 2000
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currently getting:

National Geographic (gift from grandparents)
Blender (free)
Computer Gaming World (free)
Spin (bought from some kids selling subs door to door)

I've always loved reading NG. My grandpa had a collection going back to the 1950's, and I probably read through most of them whem I was a kid.

I like Blender a lot too, It's easily better than spin or rolling stone. I love how the album reviews have a "songs do download" section.
 

DurocShark

Lifer
Apr 18, 2001
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I still subscribe to Surfing.

The rest, with my laptop and wireless connection, don't need anything else. :D
 

nageov3t

Lifer
Feb 18, 2004
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all I subscribe to any more is Spin, and only because I think that a lot of the writing in that magazine is really great.

back in the day, I subscribed to a lot of PC and gaming magazines. the problem now is, thanks to the internet, by the time the magazines reach my door, everything in them is already OFN.
 

PingSpike

Lifer
Feb 25, 2004
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I really only subscribed to one magazine, PC Gamer, for any length of time. I have issue 4 from PC Gamer, and I started subscribing at their second year I believe. It was a good magazine, but I had piles and piles of them that were just a total waste of space in my room. I didn't really want to throw them away because I still did reference them every once in awhile.

So I finally canceled my subscription because of that lack of space, and because most of that info can be found online. When I moved in with my girlfriend, I threw out all but a few favorite issues. (which amounted to approximentally 12 issues)

Online is just better IMO. I can't read it on the toliet or bring it to a cabin in the woods yet...but the info is more up to date, and its not a huge waste of paper. Most stuff I read once and never read again...so why do I need a hard copy of it?
 

NuclearNed

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May 18, 2001
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I don't even need a newspaper anymore. Both my local papers are online (and free).
 

StageLeft

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Sep 29, 2000
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Quite a bit. The only ones I get now are C&D and Time, and maxim (brother signed me up for it). I recently renewed C&D and Time.
 

Beattie

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Sep 6, 2001
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I make fun of people that still get newspapers delivered.

All the news I could ever want and more is on the internet.