Sven Roeder 9:33 Fri Sep 18
NME to be given away free from today
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The New Musical Express after 63 years of charging for the paper has now emerged as a free title with a print run of 300,000.
Follows the likes of Time Out & The Evening Standard in going free.
Anyone still been buying it over the years?
Will you stop reading it now that it is selling out and going mainstream? And bore people you see reading it by telling them 'I was into that before it sold out'
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El Scorchio
9:56 Fri Sep 18
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I still wouldn't read it.
Shit rag.
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yngwies Cat
9:57 Fri Sep 18
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I used to get Sounds!
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
9:57 Fri Sep 18
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I remember the Charles Shaar Murray / Deke Leonard guide to the service station urinals of the UK.
Quality journalism.
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Sven Roeder
10:03 Fri Sep 18
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I think the Evening Standard has improved since it went free but Time Out now appears to be a listings magazine with no listings in it.
That one has been overtaken by smart phones and the Internet.
I would guess the only magazines people are still buying are the luxury fashion ones like Vogue.
The Daves mucky book empire I am guessing has been destroyed by the internet.
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cholo
10:21 Fri Sep 18
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My elder brother bought it from the early 80s and I started late 80s to mid nineties so I read it for a good ten years at least.
The last time I read a copy was a few years ago in a train station, I thought they'd brought look-in back by the state of it.
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the last eastender
10:26 Fri Sep 18
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Seen
Evening standard is boring especially the magazine.
Just always seems to be about posh rich cunts and what they have for breakfast and what they wipe their arse with.
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Sven Roeder
10:35 Fri Sep 18
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Agree about that magazine.
Must admit I read it for a laugh as it is utterly ludicrous.
Unless you are interested in what the average billionaire is up to.
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Honest Hammer
10:37 Fri Sep 18
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Shit Emo magazine. Trying to tell me what music is cool.
No thanks.
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the last eastender
10:38 Fri Sep 18
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Sven
ES just feels irrelevant to normal Londoners now. Good for rich Russians. Oh hold on who owns it.
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Snatch Pasty
10:51 Fri Sep 18
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Fair play - their love affair with Kanye West has probably contributed to their loss of sales. It used to be a good paper.
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the last eastender
10:53 Fri Sep 18
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Snatch
The NME loves Kanye West?
Oh deary me.
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Takashi Miike
10:59 Fri Sep 18
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bought for years, especially when they had people like steven wells writing for them. it's been shit for many years
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Monk~koknee
11:16 Fri Sep 18
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Haven't bothered with it since it was renamed from the Old Musical Express.
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Sniper
12:43 Fri Sep 18
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Gave up on it when they kept insisting the strokes and the white stripes were the greatest bands ever
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mallard
1:23 Fri Sep 18
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cholo 10:21 Fri Sep 18
"I thought they'd brought look-in back by the state of it."
Ha! Ha! .. Superb
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The Stoat
1:26 Fri Sep 18
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Haven't read it since 1976
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collyrob
1:31 Fri Sep 18
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"I've never had an enemy
Except maybe NME
But I'll be selling more copies
Than their magazine will ever be"
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11MDE
2:28 Fri Sep 18
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Died when they put So Solid Crew on the cover. Never bought it since. Won't get it even if it's free.
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Sven Roeder
2:30 Fri Sep 18
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Not even if they put an albino on the cover to apologise?
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11MDE
2:34 Fri Sep 18
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Not even if they put a ghost on the cover to apologize.
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