A record will get played for decades, this will get thrown in the recycling at the end of the week
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Yeah. I keep some magazines for years (Huck, Delayed Gratification, special editions of New Statesman, etc) and recycle them.
Vinyl takes a 1000 years to decompose. 
I adore magazines. I find reading online suboptimal. Partly because you don’t stumble across reading something that’s been given space by the editors or read all the album reviews rather than just clicking on familiar names.
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Print media lol
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If you’re not aware of the Fan Fair Alliance, they’ve been calling this out
https://twitter.com/fanfairalliance/status/1680939842799034368?s=46&t=KwVhsyfPqeAqw9BAoyWxBA
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I love flicking through magazines/papers. For so many reasons, but discovering without having to search out being one of them.
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I’m still plotting a one off / annual DiS magazine with maybe a hardback book and newspaper edition option. 
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The relaunch of NME in print arrives a couple of months after BandLab Technologies raised USD $25 million in its Series B1 financing round, valuing the company at $425 million.
Had a lot more to say than is in this article, but spoke to New Statesman about return of the NME to print
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interested in what this says but paywall =
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“As much as it’s a very traditional product, we’re approaching it in a very non-traditional way,” Bishop explained. “Rather than print thousands upon thousands of copies and try to shift them at the news stand in bulk, we’ve changed that model up and have taken inspiration from industries like fashion, where you see the value in scarcity.”
The July/August NME issue will be available to order from 9 August from the music retailer Dawsons… But Dawsons doesn’t seem to have any shops open in the UK.
Each issue will cost £10
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“I don’t expect this new NME to be full of lacerating pieces about how terrible Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa are, or for that matter Stormzy,” Maconie said. “It’s a very different product, a product of the times.”
Old Man yells at clouds
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I understanding making it a premium/scarce thing but the Dawsons thing is a head scratcher
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Schrödinger’s NME
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Some absolute gems in this particularly the hair guy’s article from 2018
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partnering with Ladbrokes is not good but in a world where football has been partnered with gambling companies in a huge way for absolutely ages, I can’t get too wound up by it
i mean, that’s also terrible and you can be wound up by both 
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Have been going back through the BBC’s archive of The Reunion and came across this episode on NME during the 1970s.
What an absolute steaming pile of self-important, self-serving nonsense! I loved NME as a teenager, and some of the writing over the years was no doubt good and had certain cultural weight.
But to hear a panel of music journalists talk about themselves and their colleagues as some sort of godlike figures who changed the world. Absolutely mad.
If I listened to this in 2007, when it originally went out, I would have been nodding away to much of it. But it’s curious listening to it 16 years on from recording and to note how ridiculous it all sounds. It really hasn’t aged well and I’m glad we’ve moved on from having these cultural gatekeepers trying to tell us what’s acceptable.
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