My favourite Xmas present every year is a subscription to Private Eye (British poltical satire magazine) - it’s a great antidote to hysterical internet nonsense, so its paper format just helps with that (I’m 42).
I’m 65.
My first subscription was Mad, when I was 10 or 11. That lasted until high school. During high school I began subscribing to Rolling Stone, probably in 1970. That lasted into the 90s. During the 90s, I subscribed to New Republic and National Review.
My only current subscription is to the New Yorker, electronic edition.
My wife subscribes to a couple of magazines. The only one I can think of is Southern Living.
I’ve bought magazines fairly regularly throughout my life and still buy a few titles regularly. My bookcases are about a quarter full of old copies of Evo and Octane magazine. I’ll say that on the various enthusiasts forums I follow, the most common argument against buying magazines (paper or digital) is that there’s all sorts of content on the internet “for free.”
I hate that mindset, as it dismisses the very concept of quality writing. No one would say they don’t consume music or movies anymore because there’s tons of free amateur stuff on the internet. But people have no problem putting a rant on Jalopnik up there with David E. Davis or Chris Harris.
I subscribe to a bunch of professional magazines. I still subscribe to American Scientist
I regularly buy several
Mad (They claim that they’re not going away – they’re now selling subscriptions)
Weird N.J.
Writing Magazines, occasionally
News magazines, occasionally (we used to subscribe to Newsweek, until it died. It came back, but we haven’t re-upped
Playboy, now and then.
The Skeptic sometimes
Skeptical Inquirer sometimes
My wife subscribes to
Consumer Reports
TV Guide (Yes!)
My daughter subscribes to Cosmo.
I used to regularly buy or subscribe to a lot of other magazines, many of which have disappeared
**Cinefantastique
American Heritage Science and Invention
Time
Newsweek
Skeptical Inquirer
Scientific American**
I used to buy Guitar for the Practicing Musician. I literally learned to play guitar almost entirely by reading that magazine.
I have, at various times in my life, bought/subscribed to a wide variety of magazines, from MAD to puzzle magazines to fiction magazines to news magazines to general interest magazines (e.g. The Atlantic, Reader’s Digest) to, yes, the kind that had pictures of boobies.
Almost everything I used to get from magazines, I now get from The Internet. That, I think, is the big reason why people don’t buy magazines anymore.
I had subscriptions to a ton of magazines over the years, but none recently. I think the last one expired about 10 years ago. I don’t buy them anymore.
I still have the first issue of Omni, in mint condition.
We have two magazine subscriptions. Games World of Puzzles for me and Sports Illustrated for the kids (15 and 16). The kids read SI nearly every day (they reread older issues). If there’s better writing in an American magazine I’ve yet to find it. Unfortunately the people who own it seem bound to destroy it.
I can only recall buying a magazine from a store once - my wife asked me to pick up a copy of the Playboy w/ Vanna White in it.
We have several magazines delivered. The only one I read is the Atlantic. My wife subscribes to several violin, woodworking, and gardening mags.
I’m 54. I’ve subscribed to a ton of magazines in the past, but at this point, I’ve let them all lapse (or, in a few cases, the magazines have gone out of business). Off the top of my head, magazines that I’d subscribed to in the past:
Newsweek
Discover
Rolling Stone (I dropped it this year; it’d gone from weekly, to biweekly, to monthly)
Guitar Player
Runner’s World
Omni
Model Railroader
Sports Illiustrated
Packer Report
Smithsonian
The Atlantic
Entertainment Weekly
Dragon
Car and Driver
My wife still has a subscription to Archeology.
I’ll still occasionally buy one when I’m at the airport, but even that has become infrequent. I spend my time on planes either playing word games on my phone, or reading a book.
I currently have a subscription to The Atlantic that should have ended a year ago but they keep mailing them to me.
I used to have a subscription to Playboy a few years ago. “For the articles” jokes aside, I actually did get it because it was five bucks through some promotion and I always heard stories of great articles and interviews and writing. Figured, for five dollars, why not. It was okay, but once the subscription lapsed, I felt no desire to renew it. Plus, you might not know this, but they have nudie pics on the internet these days.
The last time I bought a magazine at the counter was perhaps six or seven years ago when I wanted some reading material over lunch. It was some computer enthusiast magazine, cost a surprising eight dollars and had maybe 15-20min worth of reading content in it between the ads.
Other magazines I had subs to in the past included Popular Science, Rolling Stone, Dragon, Omni, National Wildlife, Smithsonian and my childhood subscription to Ranger Rick.
I’ve had a subscription to Analog Science Fiction since the 60’s. Still have it and they come every month. They don’t always get read right away, but eventually they do.
Used to subscribe to Popular Science, Popular Mechanic, Photography and several others I can’t recall.
It’s my opinion that the internet has killed magazine subscriptions, and newspapers too.
Like most here, I’ve had subscriptions on-and-off for most of my life (National Geographic, Time, Sports Illustrated), but dropped the last one a couple years ago and have no particular interest in getting any new ones. Mid-60’s here.
I read a bunch of magazines regularly - some are subscriptions and some I get at the local Barnes & Noble. We subscribe to Cook’s Illustrated, Cook’s Country, Taste of the South, Entertainment Weekly, Food Network Magazine, Milk Street, and a few others. I store-buy random issues of Whisky Advocate, Zymurgy, Military Vehicle Collector, Rachael Ray Every Day, Bon Appetit, Uncut, and a few more.
Being an older person, yes, I grew up with many magazine subscriptions and currently subscribe or receive as part of memberships. For now, The Economist, Time, Sunset, Westways (AAA membership), AARP (membership). My spouse gets every high-end travel magazine imaginable and other home type magazines that I can’t be bothered to keep track of.
We used to get National Geographic, which I started as a young person. But I suffered from the delusion that it was good thing to keep them, because that’s what one was supposed to do, and everyone in my family did. As a child I enjoyed reading old issues that my grandparents had on the shelf. However, in our last move I donated them all to a library (I was happy to find someone who would take them, else I would have just tossed them in the bin.) And we also ended the subscription, partly because my tastes changed and I got tired of the implicit colonialism (oooh, look at the dark people in their colorful costumes), and climate catastrophe, viewpoints.
As for purchasing over the counter, yes, I will pick up the odd New Yorker or The Atlantic for airplane reading.
Great question - I actually had to think about this.
I haven’t bought a magazine at a newsstand in decades. I used to buy many, and then I realized that was stupid, and I should just subscribe to the ones I wanted.
I currently subscribe to The New Yorker and the Atlantic. Also Commonweal and America (Catholics will likely know these ones). Also the New York Times print edition. I don’t know if that counts as a magazine, although I supposed the Sunday magazine does.
Also (in the past) Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Analog. I seem to have lost my taste for SF, so I don’t anymore.
I used to subscribed to all the motorcycle magazines. Stopped when I gave up motorcycles, since there was grave danger of me running out and buying a new bike every time I read the latest issues, and that would inevitably lead to divorce.
I’M in my late 50s. I buy a few, used to buy more.
Mostly I cut back because the magazines have changed, not me.
I buy old magazines (late 60s-early 80s) on ebay and read them. Those are still worth reading. As long as they aren’t current events magazines, you don’t notice. 
I’m in my mid-60’s. As a kid I bought Mad and comic books. In the 70’s I bought Time, Newsweek, National Geographic and comic books. In the 80’s I had a family and stopped buying magazines.
I had a subscription to Glamour for a year or two in high school (1990s). Might have had subscription to Highlights as a child, but that would’ve been something decided by parent/grandparent, and not sure if it counts as a magazine.
Did comic books for 10+ years before abandoning with One More Day. Have read DC more recently, but chiefly digital copies of older comics. Mostly 1970s-early 2000s, but some more recent stuff.
I’m 40, I still subscribe to **Wired **magazine. I had a subscription to Rolling Stone that I loved but whatever deal I had ran out and it was $90 to sign up again and I said no way. I found cheaper subscription rates on Amazon (and they’ve since sent me some discount rates) but I’m trying to be lean in my budget this year and I don’t get around to reading it as much so I declined for now. I’ll probably go back.
I also get **Governing **magazine because I have an interest in local politics. Sadly, they printed their last issue in September.
I get magazines from the Humane Society and from my college, and I actually read them. But they are free.
Speaking of college, I was a magazine journalism major so I really love magazines.
I used to get **Spin **as a kid. For a bit I subscribed to Cook’s Illustrated as an adult. Every so often I’d buy a magazine if someone I like was on the cover or had a feature inside. I haven’t bought one off the newsstands in a long while…they seem to have gotten super expensive.
If I’m in a waiting room with magazines I love reading them, even on topics I don’t give a shit about. Like Better Homes & Gardens and Family Circle.