Let’s see here:
Playboy
Natural History - Not sure if it is a real magazine or just something the local Natural History puts out.
Nintendo Power - Subscribed to it just to get the free Zelda disc (the one with all four console games)
I want to subscribe to Men’s Health and some kind of PC Enthusiast/PC Gaming mag but I’ve been to lazy to do so.
Jane
Cosmo
Glamour
Marie Claire
I admit it, I like my magazines to have no point besides entertainment.
What magazines do you subscribe to and why do you subscribe to them?
GSA Today;comes with membership to Geological Society of America
Time; won a free 2 year subscription
Penthouse; Christmas present for the Mr.
Road & Track;We like cars
Car & Driver;same as above
TV Guide; for the crosswords mostly now, the listings are crappy and don’t list what is playing on the channels I watch :rolleyes:
Occationally pick up at the news stand:
Backpacker
National Geographic
various tattoo mags if they look interesting
Discover;for interesting science stories
American Scientific;same as above
With so much free porn on the net, I guess some of you guys let your subs to “Gash” and “Big Boobs Monthly” lapse, huh?
FHM - Gotta have it, Even the articles are interesting
Beckett Hockey Magazine - for my son though I used to be heavily into that stuff
Thinking about GQ as I’m very actively turning into a metrosexual.
Me, none, though I intend to resubscribe to PC Gamer.
Husband:
Playboy: It was cheap, but he really likes the quality of the magazine. It’s an awesome magazine that I also enjoy reading.
Stuff: Free subscription. Magazine is barely tolerable, but hey, it’s free and it didn’t require a credit card to subscribe.
Government Video: Free subscription. Rarely even open the package.
Videography: See Government Video.
Better Homes & Gardens - I like the pictures
Real Simple - Great Ideas (although often ridiculously expensive)
Time - I have no idea. My husband ordered it.
*Time * and Entertainment Weekly
The New Yorker: I started getting this free at my last job and got hooked.
Self: In my opinion, the best woman’s fitness/health magazine.
The Economist: A Christmas gift from me to SuaSponte, which I never get to read because he brings them to work and they go into some sort of black hole.
Outside: A gift from my sister. Someday we will actually take one of those fabuous trips.
Paste: Each issue comes with a free CD!
We buy these off the newsstand often enough that we probably should subscribe:
And I haven’t been able to give up my subscription to the New York Times, either.
Newsweek: Everyone else is doing it…
Discover: Fun puzzles and interesting articles, especially Vital Signs (med. stories)
Wired: Because I’m a nerd
Invention & Technology: Really good articles about… well, invention and technology
Mother Jones: How else will I learn about the President’s evil pro-sugar agenda?
Chez Thorp, we get:
Harper’s
The Nation
New York Review of Books
We also plan to re-up for Entertainment Weekly and the New Yorker.
Scientific American
Technology Review
Wired
Business 2.0
'Cause I’m somewhat of a technophile. I used to get The Economist, Reason, and The Atlantic Monthly, but I let them lapse because there was too much stuff piling up without getting read from month to month - aside from which, I tend to spend time reading news and opinion on the 'net, anyway.
Oh, and I’ll cop to Playboy, as well as Maxim and Stuff - the former for both the pictorials and the articles, the latter two for the hell of it (they’re dirt cheap, but even so I’ll probably let the subs lapse).
Game Informer- I wanted to buy Super Mario 64 at a Gamestop, and they give you a discount if you sign up for their magazine. So I did.
Natural History- Gift subscription from my uncle as a birthday gift.
discover, popular science, time, newsweek, us news & world reports
Readymade
Budget Living
Bust
And somehow, I keep getting Vegetarian Times each month, with no bill. I don’t know how that happened, but I’ve gotten some good recipes.
*The New Republic
Newsweek
National Geographic
*mrs tpayne gets Good Housekeeping and Southern Living.
National Geographic - native boobs, nah, they really don’t do that much anymore, as T-shirts have penetrated most of the obscure points on the globe;
The Leading Edge - geophysical society mag;
Geophysics - ditto
World Oil - industry stuff;
Hart’s Oil & Gas Investor - I love this stuff;
AARP The Magazine - probably won’t resubscribe.
Frequent newstand acquisitions are National Review, Flight Journal, Aviation History, World War II and Air & Space.
There’ve been threads like this over the years - perhaps I should search and see what I was reading a few years ago.
For many years I got The New Republic, but I finally gave up on them. Let the Smithsonian go, too.
Oh, and, heh, my subscription to Florida Sportsman just expired.
Wizard andMaxim
At home: Smithsonian and American Heritage
At work: Decor and Picture Framing Magazine
Embellishments - a newer craft magazine that seems to focus on paper crafts and polymer clay (two of my favorite things to play with!) but also does a nice job of blurring the lines between “art” and “craft.”
PolymerCafe - polymer clay, which I suppose is obvious. It’s quarterly, and mostly I subscribe because I know a bunch of the contributors. Great mag for beginners, though, because it presents many of the basics without being condescending to hotshots like me 
Interview - I have no idea about this one, I just subscribed last week. I fell prey to a fast-talking door-to-door kid with a terrific attitude.
I also get Better Homes and Gardens, because my mother-in-law subscribes and then gives them to me. I recently let my Readers’ Digest subscription lapse because no Girl Scouts came around selling it at the right time.
The Terrible Teen gets New Moon (for beginner feminists - this was a gift from a well-meaning aunt whose heart was in the right place, but whose head was obviously up her ass) and Muse (Smithsonian’s kids’ magazine.)
The WryGuy gets Consumer Reports, Money, The Motley Fool and Automotive Digest. He’s kinda boring that way.