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I admit to being a magazine whore. I prefer a real magazine to a digital copy or looking on the internet. Maybe because I'm old, I'm not sure.
Magazines have always been grouped, for me anyway, Total Guitar was for the "yoof" and Guitarist was for the middle aged person with more disposable income.
At present I have a subscription to Total Guitar, mainly because I wanted the subscription gift and it made financial sense to get it, especially as I often bought the magazine anyway.
I sometimes buy Guitarist, I'll have a look in Smiths and then buy it if I like the articles.
As mentioned before I HATE it when magazines really big up an article on the front cover then when you look at it it's just half a page with chord diagrams and a brief explanation. (Guitarist - "Surf Guitar Special I'm looking a you).
Reader survey, 30 years of Guitarist,etc. Surely this is the stuff of an in house magazine, not something for the shelves of Tesco?
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Plot:lost
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That may well be true- I'm not saying having genuine experts would fix all the problems (I'm not saying all of the writers aren't experts, but presumably some arent, if that job ad I saw was anything to go by, plus just going by some of the writing). Just it gets a bit annoying when the £5.50 (or whatever it is now) cover price is justified because "Ah but on the internet you're reading stuff written by idiots, we're all experts" and then you kind of find the mags aren't either (at least in some cases).
Same here, but there are only so many times I'll fork out £5+ for the same old, same old... or for stuff which I can often find better (more indepth, and more accurate) info about online for free.
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In fairness going through old editions of Guitarist a lot of the bands in "Frontend" through the years have ended up in my record collection
Noise, randomness, ballistic uncertainty.
I still subscribe to Guitar Techniques and have collected all the back issues to such an extent that I have masses of doubles which I must selll off one day, but use very little of the content these days, sadly, it'd take too much time I don't have to go through more of it/my level isn't high enough to make easy use of it/I focus my playing on what I need for my band.
I've had some use out of all the technique and transcription stuff over the years, though. For me, it was a cheaper alternative to physical lessons.
When it comes to general guitar reading, I've got most of my info from forums for years, though I've also been reading and buying the German magazine Gitarre & Bass, which is a bit like Guitarist, but with masses more text and covering a broader scope of music.
I probably buy between 6-8 issues a year.