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littlepieces · Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 1098 Location: Lowestoft

It's pretty clear we love music on this site and im wondering do any of you buy any music mags.

I buy classic rock every month Q now and then and this week i bought the nme coz they had a clash special.

In my teenage years i used to work for polygram records in the post room
every tuesday NME.Melody Maker and Sounds would come in.Not a lot of work would get done then i tell you
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ColinB · Guest

I don't buy printed mags at all now (a bit worrying since I actually write for some!) because there's so much up-to-date info out there on the interwebby thing.

In my early/mid teens I was a paperboy in Plymouth; if I got a couple of music papers in my delivery round in the evening (I was out 7 mornings a week and 6 evenings) I'd hold onto it and deliver it in the morning!

Very occasionally I'll buy Mojo or Q if they have a Special Edition on something of interest, but that's very rare these days.

littlepieces · Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 1098 Location: Lowestoft

I must admit that i get a lot of stuff from the web as well and as for being a paper boy i did it for two years which i quite enjoyed(not so much in winter) Feel sorry for them now esp at weekends with all the guff you get with the papers
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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3414 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Years ago I had Record Mirror delivered. Whatever became of it? One week in the mid-1980s it suddenly stopped arriving. Years before then, when I was a paper boy, I always sneaked a look at someone's NME before delivering it!
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littlepieces · Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 1098 Location: Lowestoft

Was record mirror the one that did flexi discs now and then?
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preraphaeliteangel · Joined: 16 Nov 2010 Posts: 249 Location: Yorkshire

For my recent birthday my husband bought me a subscription to Songlines magazine, which covers World music, as I listen to a lot of that. The first edition arrived today and it looks very good - lots of interesting articles and two free CDs.

When I was in the sixth form I used to buy the NME on the way to school and would spend my free period perusing the listings to see if there were any pub rock bands I wanted to go and see over the next week (I lived in London then), invaluable information in the pre-Internet days. It was always a bonus if The Stranglers or Racing Cars were playing somewhere.

ColinB · Guest

Pub Rock! Aaah, that fabulous short-lived pre-punk era in the mid-70s. I saw loved "pub rock", particularly Doctor Feelgood, Kilburn & The High Roads, Hatfield & The North, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, etc etc. They often played support - and were often better than the bands they were supporting.

Pub Rock gave birth to Punk, of course, but bands like the Feelgoods were punkier than their offspring!

Shaky Fan · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 628

Record Mirror stopped publishing around April 1991 due to financial reasons. It was absorbed into trade paper Music Week (which has itself been taken over this very week) for a short while before disappearing completely.

littlepieces · Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 1098 Location: Lowestoft

As i mention above i used to work for a rec co music week was another avid read and i also have to admit that in my early teenage years i used to read smash hits and NO 1 Embarassed

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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3414 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Thanks for that Shaky Fan & yes littlepieces, I remember flexi discs being given away & a few non-flexi discs! One had the best cover of 'Walk Away Renee' (yes - the song The Four Tops had a hit with) I've ever heard.
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Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7182 Location: North Yorkshire

In my younger days I used to buy Record Song Book which gave you the words of chart songs and others. I think it was published monthly.
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19294 Location: Cheshire

I'd forgotten all about The Record Song Book until you mentioned it Angela! I think I had it once or twice.

I used to sometimes buy the NME when I was still at school.

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