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Wonder what will happen to all our 10-20 year subscriptions?

The issues were getting more and more anorexic by the month and I can't imagine anyone would pay $5 for an issue.

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There goes my free subscription.

I never read it anyway.

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I had a freebie I let run out last year. It wasn't a bad magazine, at least in the bathroom. I have a cheapie to Spin now and like it much better.

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I used to like their discography ranking sections, even if many times they seemed designated to give a weaker album 1 star when it was more a 3 star effort.

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I found some good stuff in there. Sad this happened as I still had another 10 years free subscription. :(

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I had a feeling this would happen when the issues kept getting lighter and lighter. My sub is good until 2016 so I wonder what (if anything) is going to take its place.

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Blender was pretty awful for the most part, I found the reviews to be the worst...but yeah oh well about my subscription :)
the mag was getting thinner and thinner though.

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Use to enjoy when they selected a classic band, and rated all their albums. Probably was going to let my sub run out (due to the scaled back version they were putting out), but I'll miss it just the same.

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Well, poop. I thought they were quite good for a while there kind of channeling the great UK mags like Mojo and Uncut, but in the last couple of years they really seemed to lose their way. The last few issues were rather thin and the emphasis on skin over substance was getting old. Shame to see it go though, because frankly any competition to the very tired Rolling Stone/Spin music magazine monopoly in the US is welcome.

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that sucks

they covered music only unlike rolling stone which is more of a political magazine.

Stuff and Blender went out of business the last 4 years.

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Long overdue IMO. What a piece of crap. It was so idiotic and worthless I canceled my free subscription.

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I agree. Blender was starting to go downhill in the last year or so. I used to like reading it every month, and have noticed it turning into a "pamphlet" more and more lately.

Bummer. Even Spin isn't all that great. Maybe every other month I'll find something half-way decent to read in it.

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Bummer. I always figured that the magazine would fold before my free sub (good until April 2022) ran out, though.

I really liked that feature. Also enjoyed "Greatest Songs Ever" and "Ask Blender." Sure, the reviews weren't always the best, but I did like the sheer number of them (from different genres).

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They will always hold a special place in my heart for naming Gary Numan's Cars as the #1 greatest New Wave song (and rightly so). ::cries::

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Well, what do you expect when you have Lil Wayne on every other cover and he is mentioned abundantly in every issue of the past two years. I thought the fucker had just bought the magazine and was going to change it's name to Lil Wayne Is God.

Fuck Blender. Terrible music magazine. Even though my subscription was free, I could rarely find anything worth reading in it. The best feature was the article each month that covered the history of a huge pop song...but even that feature had gotten poor lately.

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Oh well. I still don't know why I suddenly started receiving their magazine sent to my house out of nowhere.

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I liked the humor of Blender, like the captions were always funny.

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I had a whatever-year free subscription and kept the new issues in my bathroom as reading material for when I took a dump. They won't be missed. This magazine was worth less than my bowel movements.

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It was a clone of Rolling Stones meets Spin that never really work goodbye to one of worst music magazine ever.

Say hello to best ever for all you music needs Q---(uk magazine) enough said!!

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That's the problem...all the best music and movie magazines come from other countries. It costs me $10 for a copy of Empire at Borders. You think this country could come up with a good product(especially a decent magazine for movies....I can't think of one from here).

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Yep, one of the nice things when I moved from the US to New Zealand a couple years back is how easily I can pick up Q, Mojo, Empire and the like now.

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what do you except when the US can't come up with a decent music channel on TV.

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What about The Wire magazine?

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I'm amazed it lasted as long as it did.

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i really liked it when it first started. i hadnt read it in a few years and was pretty happy when i got a free subscription last year. after about 3 issues i gave up. it really did turn to crap.

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I wonder if Maxim is going to disappear as well. It seems much lighter on content these days. I miss FHM. I thought about getting the UK version, but it is too expensive. Blender never impressed me so good riddance.

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The article where they would follow a band on the road and the members of the band would call and discuss what they did during the tour were interesting

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I recently subscribed to Maxim (actually paid for it!) and let the sub lapse. It seems to be missing the cool funny vibe it had going for it 10 years ago. It was like you said...light on content and unfortunately lame on humor.

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I just realized when I saw this thread title that I hadn't gotten an issue in a couple months. So I guess I don't care.

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It looks like now Rolling Stone has found a home for Lil Wayne

He is on the latest cover

http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/g...photos_rssfeed

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I, like many others here, received Blender for free for many years now. I honestly couldn't believe it stayed in print so long.

I've also noticed Maxim has been getting lower on content too for the past couple of months. The magazine is usually thin this time of year though, so I'm not worrying just yet.

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Meanwhile, in the UK: http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/04/uk-p...huts-down.html

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I think the US version will be next, eventually...

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I guess it's understandable why it shut down when no one seemed to actually be paying for it. It wasn't perfect, but there were some articles I enjoyed.

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I'm sure even though we received it free, someone down the line had to pay them to provide their magazine as an incentive. Also, the increase in circulation allowed them to charge more for aids.

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My Blender subscription got added to my Maxim one, so now I'm good 'til 2019. :lol:

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I love how people are shocked that a magazine that costs money but that they didn't pay for has gone under.

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Magazines now exist for dentist's offices and people who don't want to bring their laptop in the bathroom.

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Just because people got it for free doesn't mean someone (besides the magazine company itself) didn't pay for it.

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2025 here.