Paste Magazine, RIP

Plong42

According to a semi-reliable source (ok, it's the Gawker), Paste Magazine is dead. I consider this a great loss. As a charter subscriber to Paste I have always enjoyed the reviews and learned about a lot of great music from the samplers. No Depression and Paste are now history, I hope we are not stuck with the Rolling Stone for music news.

I do think that the days of print-magazines are numbered. Online startups like Down the Line might fill the gap, but I learn far more about new music from semi-social networks like Last.FM and emusers.org these days that print mags. But I cannot take emusuer.org to the bathroom with me.....

cafreema

You can if you have a laptop! Just don't read it in the bath. That could end poorly.

Rolling Stone and SPIN. Sigh.

Craig

Dr. Mutex

In my house the spot with the best signal is the porcelain throne. All 3 of my bathrooms provide seating within 10' of the router. In the main bath you're practically sitting on it. I didn't locate the router with bathroom access in mind, but it worked out pretty convenient.

thomnottom

That sucks. About Paste, not about people with bad wireless signals on the crapper.

I used to subscribe and really enjoyed the magazine and the sampler. Never understood why people complained about them expanding to include movies, books, etc. - although I didn't like when they started using that 100 point rating scale. I had wanted to resubscribe for a while, but knew I just didn't have the time to read it these days.

Also, I got burned when DIW stopped printing like 2 issues after I subscribed.

Plong42

I let my paste subscription lapse some time back, and figure I was "taken" a bit with their DVD (I only got two, paid for four). I also donated to the "save paste" campaign, which got them through last summer. I miss the CD samplers, the download just isn't the same.

>In my house the spot with the best signal is the porcelain throne.

That's fine if you have a lap when you sit down.....

amclark2

Katrina

Aw, that's too bad about Paste. I really liked their sampler CDs.

thomnottom

This reminds me, it's about time those dozens of old CMJs, Pastes, etc. finally find their way to the recycling bin.

choiceweb0pen0

Wow, i hope this isn't true. I've been a Paste subscriber for a few years after getting tired of Rolling Stone only reviewing mostly top 40 stuff and only female artists that looked good naked. I know they had some fundrasiers in the last year to try to hang on. I found another mag called Under the Radar that may fill that gap, though I couldn't their sampler to download.

Katrina

This reminds me, it's about time those dozens of old CMJs, Pastes, etc. finally find their way to the recycling bin.

Sadly, I think I already got rid of mine. Now I want them back! I could use them to paper my garage walls!

thomnottom

I've been skimming them before tossing them and now have a little bit of regret not saving some pages. Back in college I covered my dorm room ceiling with photos, ads, flyers, etc. and a lot of it came from CMJ (although the full version, not the smaller New Music Monthly).