What magazines do you impulse buy

[TrogL]

Often I glance over at the newsstand or at the magazines propped up at the checkout stand but I rarely buy - I can't afford it. Occasionally, though, I just can't resist.

My last few impulse buys...

This week's Time - for the article on non-canonical "gospels"
Scientific American - string theory
FMH - Halle Berry

[GOPisEvil]

1. Texas Monthly

Collectible Automobile, espeically if they are featuring a 1960s muscle car.

[corporatewhore]

17. I pick up Texas monthly once inawhile

always their bumsteer issue have you seen this years

[SlavesandBulldozers]

2. Splat Magazine

Paintball's Newest, Fastest, and Best

[adriennel]

3. Rolling Stone

only because Angelina Jolie was on the cover. :loveya:

[terrya]

4. Vanity Fair

Perfect magazine to read on the plane or train.

Although, WAY too many ads.

[RandomKoolzip]

5. None.

I go to the newsstand and read Newsweek, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Time, and the Nation...sometimes I'll buy a copy of the Nation. But I never buy any of the others. Can't afford to. (Fuck You Bush....and the Tax cts you rode in on...)


The only mags I ever subscribed to were Forced Exposure and The Wire, and since FE is now just an online catalog and doesn't even publish a magazine, it's useless; and since The Wire only covers electronica now and ignores lots of great avantrock and third-stream, I've cancelled my subscription.

[GOPisEvil]

6. Oh...your post reminded me: "No Depression"

Sometimes I'll stumble on that abd pick it up.

[quispquake]

7. I miss Forced Exposure too...

The only zine I read any more is "Ptolemaic Terrascope" which covers the more esoteric & psychedelic bands, but as far as a punk mag, there's no mags I read anymore...

[mitchum]

23. I also miss Forced Exposure

Byron Coley, what a piece of work!

[Intelsucks]

8. MOJO - British Music Magazine - Puts ROLLING STONE To Shame

n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Mojo was great....

but it seems like thery're chasing their tail nowadays; how many goddamn times can you put the fucking Beatles on the cover?! Don't get me wrong, I love the Beatles...but there's a lot of great music they COULD be promoting, but choose not to. Still, they're a great rock history mag....

[Intelsucks]

13. What I like About MOJO

Is that they jam pack every issue and all of the space is very well utilized. One issue is the equivalent of about 3 issues of RS. I only pick it up every once in a while, so I'm not a great judge of it's consistency.

[mitchum]

22. No, no, no...they alternate the Beatles covers with Rolling Stones covers.

just as they alternate the Syd and Fairport Convention retrospectives

[omshanti]

10. "Home and Garden", sometimes "Southern Living"

I always want my home and garden to look like the ones in the magazines, but somehow it never does! (Maybe cos I'm reading magazines rather than doing home improvement)

[Grassrooter]

11. Vogue.

For some reason I like torturing myself with pictures of clothes I'll never be able to afford, LOL.

[geniph]

12. It's rare, but I've been known to

buy a magazine because Halle Berry or Monica Bellucci was on the cover, too...

It's funny, whenever I answer a survey about what magazines I read, none of the ones I read are ever on their lists...because what I read is nearly all political, with the exception of Consumer Reports and Premiere.

[Interrobang]

14. A lot of different things, depending on what I can afford...

Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Science Fiction Age, 2600 The Hacker Quarterly, Juxtapoz, The Nation, This!, Adbusters, The New Yorker, OMNI (if I was feeling nostalic at the time), Playboy (if it's got Winston Smith illos), and just about anything else that crosses my path. I don't care for Atlantic Monthly, though...

[grannylib]

15. I'm a sucker for Country Living, Country Home, and the DIY stuff eom

[corporatewhore]

16. MAD magzine cause alfred e.newman is hot hot hot !!!!

i always buy their 20 dumbest things of year edition (its too easy now with dubya and the rw idiots
Adbusters (culture jamming mag)
Bitch (feminist mag)

[Catshrink]

18. Usually something with food on the cover..

preferably dessert!

[Shakespeare]

19. must...find....Scientific American....

Is it the December issue?? Fellow string theory nut here.

[TrogL]

27. November 2003

Your local library should have it.

[short bus president]

20. High Times

usually only to place on top of the stack of "Cheeks" and "Tail Ends" at the checkout counter. ;-)

[ChoralScholar]

21. PC Magazine all the way... EOM

[mitchum]

24. Pornography...

everything else I just read at the library or Barne's & Noble

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. Wow. You have an Internet connection and you BUY porn?

How early '90's of you. Heh.

[mitchum]

29. Hey, I'm a classicist

[TrogL]

26. Just picked another Scientific American

the Mind

[Spider Jerusalem]

28. Scientific American, National Geographic, Smithsonian...

Wired, Vanity Fair....a few others, but those are the main ones.

[eileen_d]

30. People Magazine Best/Worst Dressed

Every year, like clockwork.

Lately I've also impulse-bought "Real Simple" - usually end up clipping something from it.