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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #60 on: June 21, 2022, 11:29:21 AM »
I get one every year for my birthday. It nice receiving something in the mail every month that's not a bill.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #61 on: June 22, 2022, 01:17:23 PM »
Had one about 10 years ago, now i have one again ever since i got my own place. price is a bit expensive for international but it's fine. sometimes it takes a while, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes i dont get anything at all, but it's fine since i dont really read them anyway.

only gripe i have is that the international subscription renewal doesn't offer a free shirt which is rather odd.

it's nice though, makes me feel young

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #62 on: June 22, 2022, 01:32:17 PM »
I just go to the grocery store with my foldable chair, post up in the greeting card aisle, and read it cover to cover there.
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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #63 on: June 22, 2022, 03:18:40 PM »
I just go to the grocery store with my foldable chair, post up in the greeting card aisle, and read it cover to cover there.

I haven’t seen a skate mag in a grocery store in many years

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #64 on: June 22, 2022, 03:45:41 PM »
I've got one. I love getting a new mag in the mail. Although I'll admit, that since Instagram came along, it takes me a few days to a week to get through the whole mag. (I've only had an insta for a couple years) Before that I'd read most of it the first day sometimes.
Over the years I've had subscriptions to most of them. Thrasher, TWS, Slap & Big Brother all getting delivered monthly when I was a teenager. When you grow up somewhere like the Midwest like I did, magazines were a connection to the culture of skating just as much as the tricks. But the internet seems to take care of that just fine nowadays.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #65 on: June 22, 2022, 09:43:31 PM »
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I’ve had a subscription for the last few years. It’s cheap and you a get a free T-shirt.  I like reading it while I poop.
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reminds me of a simpler time before cell phones and when you intimately knew the back of the shampoo bottle
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It's great to have something to do wherever that doesn't involve a screen.

Yeah the sub is definitely worth it.
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I don't know how good or bad Thrashers Instagram page is... However I feel like the issue with me reading the shampoo bottles these days is that I would want to grab my phone to look up how fucked up all the chemicals in it are... Defeating the point of not being on my phone.

However, everytime I am on Slap I am apparently choosing this over Thrashers IG feed, for what it's worth.
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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #66 on: June 22, 2022, 09:44:50 PM »
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I just go to the grocery store with my foldable chair, post up in the greeting card aisle, and read it cover to cover there.
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I haven’t seen a skate mag in a grocery store in many years

Yeah I bet I haven't seen one at a grocery store in 15+ years.
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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #67 on: June 22, 2022, 11:10:01 PM »
I do since the price is great since I'm in the states. I give them to my nephew to try to get him stoked on skating. I check out the cover, flip to the end to read the sentences from fried dudes for a chuckle, and most often dont read any of it unless it is someone I am interested in. Being an adult kind of sucks, it is nice to check the mail and receive one thing that isn't a bill.

If it really is 75 bucks for international folks, I wouldn't.
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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #68 on: June 23, 2022, 02:19:08 PM »
I still subscribe to Thrasher, ever since I was a kid I have been amazed by skate photography and being a programer I love anything that does not involve looking at a screen outside of work. Usually when a new issue comes out, I grab a coffee and hang out a cafe and take in the skating. It is a nostalgic experience minus the coffee lol

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #69 on: July 03, 2023, 04:49:22 PM »
Bumping. Subscription went up to $28.95, not including taxes. This is in U.S. Still comes with free shirt.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #70 on: July 03, 2023, 04:53:07 PM »
i have nowhere to put them now so i jumped ship

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #71 on: July 03, 2023, 06:01:04 PM »
subbed for the first time since highschool a few months back. gave me wrong t size tho so my girlfriend got a new shirt

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #72 on: July 03, 2023, 06:04:25 PM »
Just got one a couple months ago. Havent had one since TheSkateboardMag originally came out so I thought  I would pay for the sub.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #73 on: July 03, 2023, 06:11:48 PM »
I do, it’s kinda fun to have and pass down to friends…. The t-shirt is a good gift for a nephew…

It’s rad just looking at photos and remember clips you saw two months ago. 

That said, I’m sitting on two I haven’t read….

Don’t get the free T anymore but still subscribe….

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #74 on: July 03, 2023, 11:31:51 PM »
Bumping. Subscription went up to $28.95, not including taxes. This is in U.S. Still comes with free shirt.

That still a super good deal. Last issue I bought was the one with Tyshawn kickflipping the subway tracks and it cost me 11 euros iirc.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #75 on: July 04, 2023, 06:10:57 AM »
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I do, it’s kinda fun to have and pass down to friends…. The t-shirt is a good gift for a nephew…

It’s rad just looking at photos and remember clips you saw two months ago. 

That said, I’m sitting on two I haven’t read….
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Don’t get the free T anymore but still subscribe….

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #76 on: July 04, 2023, 08:55:22 AM »
it's $77 to the UK

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #77 on: July 04, 2023, 09:01:26 AM »
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I do, it’s kinda fun to have and pass down to friends…. The t-shirt is a good gift for a nephew…

It’s rad just looking at photos and remember clips you saw two months ago. 

That said, I’m sitting on two I haven’t read….
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Don’t get the free T anymore but still subscribe….

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #78 on: July 04, 2023, 10:01:06 AM »
Went all out and got a two year subscription because a year flies by.

The real question is which slappals read the band interviews?

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #79 on: July 04, 2023, 10:14:03 AM »
I just renewed after I missed a couple of months. Need to go to the shop and see what they have in the stack, try to catch up.

I have a bookcase in my garage with all of my mags from like the last 10 years or so. My own look back library. I wish I had the Slap and Transworld mags from when I was a kid. I subbed to Slap from like 95-04. I wish I had those Transworld Stance issues, so I could finally figure out if it's better to have a loud exhaust or subwoofers in my civic.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #80 on: July 04, 2023, 10:17:10 AM »
I just got one this year and man I'm really really enjoying holding it my hands and reading it. I really missed print media.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #81 on: July 04, 2023, 10:25:25 AM »
I buy a issue every now and then but I never had the year subscription. Being from Japan I have no idea how to do it and my English is not good enough for understanding the whole text. But having born in the 80s, having a real magazine on your hands feels really good. The same with photography books or zines.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #82 on: July 04, 2023, 10:32:14 AM »
I been subscribed a few years but overseas prices are insane and you get the mag two-three months later...

In my last subscription they only sent me 9 mags instead of 12 it wasn't hard to not renew.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #83 on: July 04, 2023, 10:38:58 AM »
I just got one this year and man I'm really really enjoying holding it my hands and reading it. I really missed print media.

I said something similar here when this thread first showed up. It's great to get a piece of print media at my door once-per-month. It's an excellent excuse to do something other than look at your phone on the toilet.

My biggest complaint is that the cover gets "spoiled" like three and a half weeks before the issue arrives. Maybe I'm nostalgic for being a kid, when the mag was the only skate media you'd encounter all month, but it feels kind disrespectful to the people who literally pay for access to Thrasher aren't the first ones to see the cover.
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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #84 on: July 04, 2023, 11:35:55 AM »
I don’t really share thrashers opinon on skateboarding,
but I woud miss to read them.
My first and my last print skateboarding medium love..

Everything else left me - or I lost interest over the years. Enjoy thrasher every month.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #85 on: July 04, 2023, 11:42:26 AM »
I don’t but I would be willing to pay the same price to get Free skate mag bimonthly in the states  :(
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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #86 on: July 04, 2023, 11:48:14 AM »
I do. Been for years.

It’s worth it. Better than scrolling, there’s an end. Shelf it and come back a year later, it’s a time capsule.

Take the the free shirt and give it to your mom.

My only criticism is the cheap ass stickers they put in there. Rather none or at least one quality stick that can go on a deck.

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #87 on: July 04, 2023, 11:57:56 AM »
Yes, it's cheap and it's a nice tangible piece of skateboarding documentation / history to collect and look back on years from now. They won't be around forever.
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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #88 on: July 05, 2023, 05:03:01 PM »
the subscription is unbelievably cheap and i don't have any friends that skate so i feel like it's my way of keeping up with The Culture

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Re: how many slappers have a thrasher mag subscription?
« Reply #89 on: July 05, 2023, 05:07:27 PM »
I just subscribed again. Stoked to get some good skate photos in my life again.